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Michael Olm

3×3 · top 8.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2016 · 2016OLMM01

Michael Olm has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.30, set at Frankfurt Cube Days 2018, puts him in the top 8.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 428th in Germany. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since January 2016, he has put 290 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 93% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.48 in January 2016 to 10.30, a 29% improvement. Michael has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.4% of 284,439 all-time
10.30
signature single · Frankfurt Cube Days 2018
290
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 93% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGermany
3×310.3012.15
top 8.4%428 / 4,109
2×23.685.84
top 22.4%752 / 2,875
Pyraminx6.4911.90
top 23.7%601 / 1,987
3×3 one-handed24.4427.37
top 32.7%431 / 1,314
4×41:00.851:18.12
top 37.4%709 / 1,934
Megaminx4:53.04
early days — 1 solve739 / 787

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

Frankfurt Cube Days 2016: 14.48Hessen Open 2016: 12.54Frankfurt Cube Days 2017: 12.43Hessen Open 2017: 11.86World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 14.90Frankfurt Cube Days 2018: 10.30Hessen Open 2018: 11.86Monnem City Cubing 2018: 11.0410.3014.9030 Jan 201622 Sep 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 0.30 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.68 away.

Targets move as he improves.