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Marcus Apostol

Pyraminx · top 5.9% of 130,891 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 130,891 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 18 competitions since September 2024, he has put 514 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 55% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.41 in September 2024 to 12.37, a 39% improvement. Marcus has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 5.9% of 130,891 all-time
3.61
signature single · Eat Sleep Cube Repeat Leersum 2025
514
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier 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 / 830
2×23.014.18
top 14.4%166 / 1,219
3×312.3717.10
top 15.2%192 / 1,581
Skewb5.0010.32
top 18.2%57 / 401
Clock9.2411.85
top 21.1%38 / 190
Square-123.7137.61
top 36.4%54 / 159
4×459.961:13.85
top 36.5%155 / 582
Megaminx1:52.762:18.82
top 42.1%75 / 243
3×3 one-handed33.0243.67
top 53.5%183 / 415
5×52:31.433:00.64
top 66.6%117 / 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: 16.54Visé Sunday Open 2026: 17.03Waremme Open 2026: 17.9712.3720.627 Sep 202411 Oct 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 — 4,783 people have one; it is 0.61 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 27,049 people have one; it is 0.01 away.

Targets move as he improves.