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Maxime Merz

Pyraminx · top 15.4% of 129,321 all-time · competing since October 2017 · 2017MERZ02

Maxime Merz has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 5.35, set at Sunmarke Dubai Open 2018, puts him in the top 15.4% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 391st in Germany. Across 8 competitions since October 2017, he has put 191 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 80% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.77 in October 2017 to 12.97, a 62% improvement. Maxime has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 15.4% of 129,321 all-time
5.35
signature single · Sunmarke Dubai Open 2018
191
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 80% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGermany
Pyraminx5.356.98
top 15.4%391 / 1,987
2×23.225.21
top 16.8%590 / 2,875
3×312.9714.24
top 17.3%854 / 4,109
4×41:01.231:06.29
top 37.8%719 / 1,934
Skewb9.5316.13
top 52.0%682 / 1,169
3×3 one-handed41.6748.30
top 67.6%904 / 1,314

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

Sunmarke Dubai Open II 2017: 33.77Wellspring Open 2017: 24.09Sunmarke Dubai Open 2018: 13.29Franconia Open 2018: 13.50GEMS Modern Academy Open 2018: 13.89Sharjah Open 2019: 15.91German Nationals 2019: 12.97City Centre Sharjah Open 2019: 13.4112.9733.7721 Oct 201713 Sep 2019

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-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.35 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.22 away.

Targets move as he improves.