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Raphaël Pihet

3×3 · top 2.5% of 288,433 all-time · competing since April 2011 · 2011PIHE01

Raphaël Pihet has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.84, set at JRCA Kansai Winter 2017, puts him in the top 2.5% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 166th in France. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 46 competitions since April 2011, he has put 1,938 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 61% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.71 in April 2011 to 7.84, a 38% improvement. He has entered 46 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.5% of 288,433 all-time
7.84
signature single · JRCA Kansai Winter 2017
1,938
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFrance
3×37.8410.19
top 2.5%166 / 4,823
2×21.633.14
top 2.8%127 / 3,129
4×434.5837.40
top 6.4%132 / 1,839
3×3 one-handed14.2118.93
top 6.6%119 / 1,508
5×51:01.791:06.98
top 6.6%55 / 1,038
7×72:48.402:58.04
top 7.4%23 / 381
Pyraminx4.398.06
top 9.7%260 / 2,185
6×61:56.942:05.42
top 9.9%33 / 444
Square-114.6118.42
top 15.6%89 / 547
Megaminx1:10.831:20.32
top 16.2%128 / 872
Skewb8.1110.04
top 42.2%585 / 1,309
3×3 blindfolded4:46.94—
early days — 1 solve343 / 445

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

French Championship 2011: 12.71Galeries Lafayette Open 2011: 11.50Galeries Lafayette Open 2012: 10.77Kansai Open 2013: 8.91Kansai Star Festival 2013: 9.81East Osaka 2013: 10.19West Japan Big Cube 2013: 11.06JRCA Kansai Winter 2014: 11.52Kansai Open 2014: 9.80JRCA Kansai Spring 2014: 10.22JRCA Kansai Summer 2014: 9.80Champagne Summer Open 2014: 7.90JRCA Kansai Winter 2015: 9.41Kansai Open 2015: 8.75JRCA Kansai Spring 2015: 10.72JRCA Kansai Summer 2015: 9.77Japan Open 2015: 10.65JRCA Kansai Fall 2015: 9.84JRCA Kansai Winter 2016: 9.63Kansai Open 2016: 10.18JRCA Kansai Spring 2016: 9.69JRCA Kansai Summer 2016: 10.02JRCA Kansai Fall 2016: 9.52Japan Open 2016: 9.30Kansai Small Cubes 2016: 10.56JRCA Kansai Winter 2017: 7.84JRCA Kansai Spring 2017: 9.97World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 10.32Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2017: 10.32Kansai Fall 2017: 10.49Kansai Big Cube 2017: 10.62Japan Open 2017: 8.66Kobe Open 2018: 9.81Kansai Open 2018: 9.12Kyoto Open 2018: 10.01Omiya Bigs 2018: 10.54Kansai Summer 2018: 8.64WCA Asian Championship 2018: 10.08Kansai Big Cube 2018: 9.82Japan Championship 2018: 9.17JRCA Kansai Winter 2019: 9.48Ayase 2019: 9.63Kansai Open 2019: 8.68Nishinomiya Open 2019: 9.44Kansai Summer 2019: 9.757.8412.7122 Apr 20111 Sep 2019

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 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.84 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.63 away.

Targets move as he improves.