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Marcus Apostol

Pyraminx · top 5.9% of 129,321 all-time · competing since September 2024 · 2024APOS03

Marcus Apostol has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 3.61, set at Eat Sleep Cube Repeat Leersum 2025, puts him in the top 5.9% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 47th in Romania. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since September 2024, he has put 468 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.41 in September 2024 to 12.37, a 39% improvement. Marcus has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 5.9% of 129,321 all-time
3.61
signature single · Eat Sleep Cube Repeat Leersum 2025
468
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRomania
Pyraminx3.617.65
top 5.9%47 / 825
2×23.014.18
top 14.3%165 / 1,214
3×312.3717.10
top 15.2%192 / 1,574
Skewb5.0010.32
top 18.1%57 / 401
Clock9.2411.85
top 21.2%36 / 187
Square-123.7147.06
top 36.3%54 / 158
Megaminx1:52.762:18.82
top 41.9%75 / 243
4×41:10.041:13.85
top 46.9%193 / 578
3×3 one-handed33.0243.67
top 53.4%183 / 411
5×52:34.503:00.64
top 67.9%127 / 225
6×68:27.79—
early days — 1 solve117 / 128

Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.

The line so far

Luxembourg Nationals 2024: 20.41Visé Open Saturday 2024: 20.62Zottegem Saturday Open 2024: 14.71Flashback Collector Metz 2024: 18.62Open the Door Moselle 2024: 19.46Christmas Cubing Breda 2024: 16.27Hayange Open 2025: 14.37Hasselt Saturday Open 2025: 15.50Leuven Open 2025: 15.93Lente in Lent 2025: 12.37Eat Sleep Cube Repeat Leersum 2025: 17.24Nilvange Open 2025: 15.06Stenay Que le Début 2026: 15.45Hayange Open 2026: 17.31Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 16.5412.3720.627 Sep 202416 Jul 2026

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.

The circuit

The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to his.

Next targets

  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.61 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.01 away.

Targets move as he improves.