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Maxim Pürstinger

2×2 · top 1.4% of 186,767 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022PURS01

Maxim Pürstinger has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.32, set at Hungarian All-Rounder 2: Second Chance 2024, puts him in the top 1.4% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 10th in Austria. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since October 2022, he has put 1,168 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 50% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.88 in October 2022 to 7.20, a 34% improvement. Maxim has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.4% of 186,767 all-time
1.32
signature single · Hungarian All-Rounder 2: Second Chance 2024
1,168
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 50% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustria
2×21.322.37
top 1.4%10 / 396
3×37.209.09
top 1.6%10 / 530
3×3 blindfolded21.1426.13
top 1.7%3 / 36
Skewb2.374.33
top 2.4%4 / 161
3×3 Multi-Blind22 of 25 cubes · 1:00:00—
top 5.7%5 / 17
Pyraminx3.594.32
top 5.8%25 / 261
3×3 one-handed14.1716.04
top 6.4%14 / 184
Megaminx59.581:06.10
top 9.8%14 / 93
4×439.8143.96
top 11.9%33 / 224
5×51:17.401:24.41
top 17.1%28 / 118
6×62:14.852:34.79
top 17.9%17 / 64
Square-116.7818.22
top 20.5%13 / 73
4×4 blindfolded4:49.796:37.73
top 20.7%6 / 12
Clock9.6611.23
top 23.4%22 / 79
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves41.33
top 30.0%18 / 53
7×74:19.594:23.03
top 37.5%26 / 53
5×5 blindfolded15:27.00—
early days — 1 solve7 / 10

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

Vienna Open 2022: 10.88Budapest ReOpen 2022: 10.33Vienna Fasching 2023: 9.41Szokolya Open 2023: 9.00Wiener Frühling 2023: 9.16Budapest Summer 2023: 8.26Vienna Big Cube Summer 2023: 9.17Budapest Back to School 2023: 9.34BMME 3x3 Day 2023: 9.14Hungarian Open 2023: 9.38Vienna Fasching 2024: 10.08Hungarian All-Rounder 1: The Saga Begins 2024: 8.01Longstone City Blind Open 2024: 8.06Hungarian All-Rounder 2: Second Chance 2024: 8.57Hungarian All-Rounder 3: A Kind of Magic 2024: 7.20Budapest Summer 2024: 9.75Hungarian All-Rounder 4: Holiday 2024: 7.25Hungarian All-Rounder 5: With or Without You 2024: 7.35Warm Up Portugalete 2024: 7.95Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 7.977.2010.8822 Oct 202225 Jul 2024

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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.32 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.20 away.

Targets move as he improves.