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Maxime Bernard

3×3 · top 9.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2017 · 2017BERN01

Maxime Bernard has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.78, set at Aix-en-Provence Open 2017, puts him in the top 9.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 517th in France. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since January 2017, he has put 96 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.02 in January 2017 to 10.78, a 28% improvement. Maxime has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.8% of 284,439 all-time
10.78
signature single · Aix-en-Provence Open 2017
96
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFrance
3×310.7813.05
top 9.8%517 / 4,746
4×447.5357.16
top 21.5%396 / 1,817
2×23.804.96
top 23.9%807 / 3,074
5×52:36.272:54.15
top 68.7%649 / 1,024
3×3 one-handed45.39
early days — 2 solves1,010 / 1,490

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

Istres Open 2017: 15.02Aix-en-Provence Open 2017: 10.78Istres Open 2018: 11.28French Championship 2018: 11.6410.7815.0228 Jan 201731 Mar 2018

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.78 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 7.53 away.

Targets move as he improves.