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Richard Tola

3×3 · top 0.27% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2013 · 2013TOLA01

Richard Tola has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.55, set at London Open 2019, puts him in the top 0.27% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in Greece. Until March 2013, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since December 2013, he has put 349 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.09 in December 2013 to 5.55, a 45% improvement. Richard has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.27% of 284,439 all-time
5.55
signature single · London Open 2019
349
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGreece
3×35.559.12
top 0.27%4 / 982
2×21.853.18
top 3.9%48 / 733
4×433.8138.06
top 5.7%24 / 384
5×51:06.631:16.72
top 9.4%15 / 205
3×3 one-handed22.4926.95
top 27.3%73 / 288
6×62:50.823:01.71
early days — 3 solves28 / 78
7×75:41.886:01.65
early days — 3 solves38 / 62

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

V-CUBE Athens Open 2013: 10.09Greece Winter Open 2015: 10.05Greece Spring Open 2016: 9.21Greece Winter Open 2016: 9.40Greece Spring Open 2017: 8.00Greece New Year 2019: 7.41London Open 2019: 5.555.5510.097 Dec 201311 May 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.55 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.85 away.

Targets move as he improves.