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Rafał Studnicki

Clock · top 12.8% of 32,048 all-time · competing since September 2005 · 2005STUD01

Rafał Studnicki has been competing for 21 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 7.46, set at Kociewie Open 2010, puts him in the top 12.8% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 267th in Poland. Across 41 competitions since September 2005, he has put 705 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.33 in September 2005 to 12.19, a 57% improvement. He has entered 41 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 12.8% of 32,048 all-time
7.46
signature single · Kociewie Open 2010
705
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPoland
Clock7.469.33
top 12.8%267 / 1,549
3×312.1917.27
top 14.6%1,197 / 6,576
2×23.136.47
top 15.8%1,129 / 5,422
4×41:29.191:41.54
top 63.0%1,691 / 2,851
3×3 blindfolded4:24.58—
top 73.4%353 / 466
Pyraminx13.9016.19
top 77.4%3,511 / 4,406
3×3 one-handed51.38—
early days — 1 solve1,674 / 2,176
Square-11:39.34—
early days — 3 solves983 / 1,002

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

Polish Open 2005: 28.33Polish Open 2006: 34.88Wroclaw Open 2007: 34.93Polish Open 2007: 33.68World Rubik's Cube Championship 2007: 30.78Gdansk Open 2008: 27.53Pabianice Open 2008: 35.19Polish Open 2008: 22.47Czech Open 2008: 22.02Wroclaw Open 2008: 21.65Marina Gdansk Open 2008: 17.41Polish Nationals 2009: 20.08Poznan Open 2009: 18.99Gdansk Open 2009: 20.05Brussels Summer Open 2009: 14.93World Rubik's Cube Championship 2009: 20.34Silesia Open 2009: 19.00Poznan Open 2010: 19.66Kociewie Open 2010: 17.09East German Open 2010: 16.30Oslo Open 2010: 17.15Pabianice Open 2010: 16.34European Rubik's Cube Championship 2010: 17.53Rzeszow Open 2010: 12.19Lodz Open 2011: 18.63Milan Cube Open 2011: 14.81Bialystok Open 2011: 15.02Veneto Open 2011: 14.58Lyon Open 2011: 18.41Cube Factory 2011: 16.05Cubing Spring Grudziadz 2012: 16.96Polish Open 2012: 17.93European Rubik's Cube Championship 2012: 14.59Warszawa Open 2012: 17.38Polish Open 2013: 17.42Kraków Open 2013: 17.32Warsaw Open 2014: 15.11SLS Chorzow 2014: 20.78Polish Nationals 2014: 16.91Masterpress Summer 2014: 18.33Polish Championship 2016: 20.7912.1935.1918 Sep 20059 Dec 2016

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 Clock single — 2,324 people have one; it is 1.46 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.19 away.

Targets move as he improves.