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Maxime Clapié

3×3 · top 2.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2013 · 2013CLAP01

Maxime Clapié has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.73, set at French Championship 2016, puts him in the top 2.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 149th in France. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 33 competitions since April 2013, he has put 1,353 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 65% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.38 in April 2013 to 7.73, a 56% improvement. Maxime has entered 33 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.3% of 284,439 all-time
7.73
signature single · French Championship 2016
1,353
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFrance
3×37.7310.08
top 2.3%149 / 4,746
2×21.562.61
top 2.4%104 / 3,074
Pyraminx3.277.05
top 4.6%129 / 2,148
3×3 blindfolded31.5540.43
top 4.6%20 / 434
3×3 Multi-Blind21 of 23 cubes · 57:37—
top 5.4%11 / 165
4×441.6449.62
top 14.1%272 / 1,817
3×3 one-handed17.6219.46
top 14.1%233 / 1,490
3×3 Fewest Moves30 moves—
early days — 3 solves80 / 367
5×52:13.812:20.48
top 57.5%543 / 1,024

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

French Championship 2013: 17.38La Montagne Open 2013: 15.94French Championship 2014: 13.80Champagne Summer Open 2014: 12.18Open Cube Project 2015: 11.41Lyon Megaminx Open 2015: 11.66FLIP Open 2015: 10.54Champagne Open 2015: 11.65Nancy Open 2015: 10.63Welcome Thay Cambridge 2015: 9.66Open Cube Project 2016: 10.83French Championship 2016: 7.73Lyon Megaminx Open 2016: 8.14Champagne Open 2016: 9.56Annecy Open 2016: 10.52Opal Open 2016: 10.19French Championship 2017: 11.11World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 10.08Champagne Open 2017: 9.94UK Championship 2017: 9.50French Championship 2018: 9.17L'Open du Berry 2018: 8.38WCA European Championship 2018: 8.87Champagne Open 2018: 9.01Paris Open 2018: 8.93French Championship 2019: 10.57Massy Palais'Open B 2022: 9.99Carquef'Open 2025: 10.24Nanterre Open 2025: 10.06Champagne Open 2025: 8.51Palais'10Open 2025: 10.69Chelles Open 2026: 9.80French Championship 2026: 8.847.7317.3827 Apr 20134 Apr 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.73 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.56 away.

Targets move as he improves.