People · Canada
Raphaël Boutin-Côté
3×3 · top 4.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2019 · 2019BOUT02
Raphaël Boutin-Côté has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.99, set at Imaginaire Québec 2024, puts him in the top 4.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 464th in Canada. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since February 2019, he has put 149 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.05 in February 2019 to 8.99, a 25% improvement. He has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 8.99 | 9.63 | top 4.8% | 464 / 10,392 | |
| 4×4 | 34.43 | 45.70 | top 6.2% | 146 / 3,118 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.59 | 9.58 | top 10.8% | 392 / 4,858 | |
| Megaminx | 1:26.33 | 1:30.43 | top 25.8% | 232 / 1,375 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 22.60 | 29.76 | top 27.6% | 600 / 2,620 | |
| 5×5 | 1:36.78 | 1:49.82 | top 32.9% | 406 / 1,499 | |
| 2×2 | 4.88 | 5.57 | top 37.8% | 2,610 / 7,173 | |
| 6×6 | 3:36.47 | 3:53.03 | early days — 3 solves | 320 / 665 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 5 Dec 2021First sub-10 3×3: 9.02 at Welcome Back Lévis 2021.
- 5 Dec 2021Three personal bests in one day at Welcome Back Lévis 2021.
- 16 Feb 2019First competition: Québec City 2019. A 15.54 3×3 single to start from.
- 16 Feb 2019First sub-15 3×3: 12.05 at Québec City 2019.
- 16 Feb 2019Three personal bests in one day at Québec City 2019.
Competitions
- Imaginaire Québec 2024 · 21 Sep 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Gros Jouets à Montréal 2023 · 21 Jan 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Welcome Back Lévis 2021 · 5 Dec 2021 — 3 personal bests set
- Trois-Rivieres 2019 · 19 Oct 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Québec City 2019 · 16 Feb 2019 — 3 personal bests set
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.
- Matt Hudon — met in 25 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
- Jasmin Bouchard — met in 25 rounds, finished ahead once
- Louis-Alex Tremblay — met in 25 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.99 away.
- A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 4.43 away.
Targets move as he improves.