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Maya Engel

3×3 one-handed · top 4.2% of 73,695 all-time · competing since October 2009 · 2009ENGE01

Maya Engel has been competing for 17 years. Her best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 12.86, set at CBNBC 2015, puts her in the top 4.2% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 31st in the Netherlands. Until January 2010, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since October 2009, she has put 381 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 one-handed best has come down from 39.06 in December 2009 to 12.86, a 67% improvement. Maya has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 4.2% of 73,695 all-time
12.86
signature single · CBNBC 2015
381
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNetherlands
3×3 one-handed12.8615.40
top 4.2%31 / 726
3×310.5112.41
top 9.0%250 / 2,294
2×22.964.97
top 13.8%304 / 1,665
4×457.331:05.67
top 33.5%320 / 1,000
Square-124.3629.86
top 37.6%144 / 407
Pyraminx8.4417.01
top 40.0%632 / 1,283
5×52:29.283:05.57
top 65.4%338 / 532

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

The Hague Open 2009: 39.06Benelux Open 2010: 35.40German Open 2010: 36.71Belgian Open 2010: 26.91Düsseldorf Open 2010: 27.15Dutch Open 2010: 22.93Dutch Nationals 2010: 19.91NEMO Amsterdam Open 2011: 21.16Belgian Open 2011: 19.96Amstelveen Open 2011: 16.93Dutch Nationals 2011: 20.97Dutch Nationals 2014: 17.61Dutch Open 2014: 16.43Eat Sleep Cube Repeat 2014: 16.13CBNBC 2015: 12.8612.8639.0612 Dec 200923 May 2015

Best single per competition, 3×3 one-handed. 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 0.86 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.51 away.

Targets move as she improves.