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Merlin Mousseau-Samedi

3×3 · top 26.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2022 · 2022MOUS03

Merlin Mousseau-Samedi has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 15.48, set at Gesté Une Fois 2024, puts him in the top 26.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,223rd in France. Across 8 competitions since April 2022, he has put 140 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 3 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.11 in April 2022 to 15.48, a 43% improvement. Merlin has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 26.1% of 284,439 all-time
15.48
signature single · Gesté Une Fois 2024
140
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFrance
3×315.4818.18
top 26.1%1,223 / 4,746
Pyraminx6.9012.06
top 27.1%640 / 2,148
2×24.146.17
top 28.3%937 / 3,074
4×41:09.091:25.39
top 46.0%821 / 1,817
3×3 one-handed45.751:04.07
top 72.4%1,015 / 1,490
5×53:55.76
early days — 2 solves901 / 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

Paris Open 2022: 27.11Carquef'Open 2022: 29.41Angers ESEOpen 2022: 28.65Carquef'Open 2023: 20.15FLIP Open 2023: 21.16Un Petit Gesté Open 2023: 18.96Carquef'Open 2024: 16.79Gesté Une Fois 2024: 15.4815.4829.4116 Apr 202214 Sep 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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 0.48 away.
  • A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 0.90 away.

Targets move as he improves.