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Olivier Polspoel

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 6.2% of 12,294 all-time · competing since February 2007 · 2007POLS01

Olivier Polspoel has been competing for 20 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 26 moves, set at Zonhoven Open 2013, puts him in the top 6.2% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6th in Belgium. Across 36 competitions since February 2007, he has put 986 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 54.19 in February 2007 to 27.21, a 50% improvement. Olivier has entered 36 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 6.2% of 12,294 all-time
26 moves
signature single · Zonhoven Open 2013
986
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingBelgium
3×3 Fewest Moves26 moves—
top 6.2%6 / 69
Pyraminx6.7512.33
top 25.8%190 / 589
2×26.4610.91
top 55.6%484 / 777
3×327.2134.24
top 57.3%660 / 1,094
Square-152.131:35.46
top 77.9%107 / 150
Clock26.5331.67
top 79.4%146 / 180
4×42:10.362:41.24
top 86.0%395 / 459
3×3 one-handed1:04.091:31.70
top 86.2%266 / 314
Skewb18.4721.50
top 87.1%361 / 394
5×54:12.815:03.38
top 93.2%231 / 246
Megaminx5:50.756:22.46
top 98.1%192 / 197
7×716:07.00—
early days — 2 solves91 / 91
6×610:51.00—
early days — 2 solves119 / 119

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

Belgian Open 2007: 54.19Dutch Open 2007: 35.08Belgian Open 2008: 41.75Benelux Open 2008: 33.97French Open 2008: 35.40Toulouse Summer Open 2008: 34.77Brussels Summer Open 2008: 29.40Dutch Open 2008: 30.81Benelux Open 2009: 32.93Belgian Open 2009: 32.17French Open 2009: 32.66Brussels Summer Open 2009: 29.93World Rubik's Cube Championship 2009: 33.28Dutch Open 2009: 35.40Toulouse Open 2010: 30.84Benelux Open 2010: 30.28French Open 2010: 33.65Lyon Summer Open 2010: 35.80Galeries Lafayette Open 2010: 34.02Dutch Open 2010: 36.69Neptune Open 2011: 29.77Belgian Open 2011: 31.77Lyon Open 2011: 35.03Dutch Open 2011: 31.47Cachan Open 2011: 27.21Spols Open 2011: 38.15Breizh Open 2012: 41.00Zune Open 2012: 34.31La Montagne Open 2012: 30.02Dutch Open 2012: 30.61Hasselt Open 2012: 33.56Zonhoven Open 2013: 31.30Minx Open 2013: 31.00Minx Open 2014: 32.3327.2154.1924 Feb 200722 Feb 2014

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 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 0.75 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 0.46 away.

Targets move as he improves.