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Mark Allen Baruc

3×3 · top 0.78% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2016 · 2016BARU02

Mark Allen Baruc has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.41, set at Iligan Open 2017, puts him in the top 0.78% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 68th in the Philippines. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since December 2016, he has put 125 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 7.71 in December 2016 to 6.41, a 17% improvement. Mark has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.78% of 284,439 all-time
6.41
signature single · Iligan Open 2017
125
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPhilippines
3×36.418.60
top 0.78%68 / 6,270
3×3 one-handed14.3816.94
top 6.9%149 / 2,440
Pyraminx4.259.14
top 8.9%225 / 2,621
2×22.933.44
top 13.4%576 / 4,257
4×447.5950.67
top 21.6%554 / 2,135

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

Iligan Open 2016: 7.71Bukidnon Speedcubing Challenge 2017: 9.46Iligan Open 2017: 6.416.419.4627 Dec 201622 Dec 2017

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.41 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 2.38 away.

Targets move as he improves.