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Paweł Kowol

Pyraminx · top 3.4% of 129,321 all-time · competing since July 2011 · 2011KOWO01

Paweł Kowol has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.93, set at Masterpress Summer 2014, puts him in the top 3.4% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 264th in Poland. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 45 competitions since July 2011, he has put 2,495 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 96% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His Pyraminx best has come down from 7.19 in July 2011 to 2.93, a 59% improvement. He has entered 45 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 3.4% of 129,321 all-time
2.93
signature single · Masterpress Summer 2014
2,495
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 96% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPoland
Pyraminx2.934.09
top 3.4%264 / 4,406
3×310.3314.66
top 8.4%745 / 6,576
Skewb4.047.29
top 11.2%470 / 2,810
2×22.844.04
top 12.4%926 / 5,422
Square-114.4018.71
top 15.0%167 / 1,002
3×3 one-handed18.0824.79
top 15.3%359 / 2,176
4×447.9353.62
top 22.0%630 / 2,851
Clock9.6110.62
top 23.1%438 / 1,549
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves42.67
top 33.6%177 / 466
Megaminx1:44.181:47.85
top 37.1%496 / 1,384
5×51:47.231:57.18
top 40.7%549 / 1,442
3×3 blindfolded2:37.323:13.80
top 45.6%212 / 466
6×63:23.303:36.24
top 52.0%322 / 669
7×75:39.665:46.88
top 62.5%323 / 546

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

Swierklany Open 2011: 7.19Silesia Open 2012: 3.55Polish Nationals 2012: 5.00Industrial Cube 2012: 5.38European Rubik's Cube Championship 2012: 5.34Jura Open 2012: 4.00Rybnik Open 2013: 5.82Polish Open 2013: 3.87Kraków Open 2013: 4.73Manufaktura Open 2013: 4.59Polish Nationals 2013: 4.88Chojnice Open 2013: 4.27SLS Jastrzebie 2013: 4.16SLS Zaglebie 2013: 3.56SLS Swierklany 2013: 3.71SLS Czestochowa 2013: 4.22SLS Bielsko-Biala 2014: 3.84Polish Open 2014: 3.69SLS Gliwice 2014: 3.80SLS Rybnik 2014: 3.01SLS Tarnowskie Gory 2014: 3.51SLS Chorzow 2014: 3.84Aleksandrus Cube 2014: 3.69Polish Nationals 2014: 3.80Masterpress Summer 2014: 2.93Chojnice Open 2014: 4.03Kielce Cube Attack 2014: 3.68Bydgoszcz Summer 2014: 3.30Krakow Cubing Spree 2014: 4.35Santa Claus Cube Race 2014: 3.90ŚLS Gliwice 2015: 3.39Polish Open 2015: 3.04ŚLS Zawiercie 2015: 4.27SLS Rybnik 2015: 3.47Radomsko Cube Theory 2015: 4.21ŚLS Sosnowiec 2015: 3.69Kaliska Open 2015: 3.36Polish Championship 2015: 4.22ŚLS Wodzisław Śląski 2015: 4.21Santa Claus Cube Race 2015: 4.99Beskidy Cubing Day 2016: 3.97Speed Day Lublin 2016: 4.09SLS Gliwice 2017: 3.94Polish Nationals 2017: 3.292.937.1923 Jul 201117 Nov 2017

Best single per competition, Pyraminx. 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-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.93 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.33 away.

Targets move as he improves.