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Simon Blanchard

3×3 one-handed · top 1.8% of 73,695 all-time · competing since January 2013 · 2013BLAN01

Simon Blanchard has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 10.98, set at FLIP Open 2017, puts him in the top 1.8% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 29th in France. Until July 2011, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 32 competitions since January 2013, he has put 1,923 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.03 in January 2013 to 7.93, a 68% improvement. Simon has entered 32 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 1.8% of 73,695 all-time
10.98
signature single · FLIP Open 2017
1,923
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFrance
3×3 one-handed10.9814.46
top 1.8%29 / 1,490
3×37.9310.11
top 2.7%169 / 4,746
Megaminx44.6251.41
top 3.0%33 / 867
5×51:01.641:12.00
top 6.4%51 / 1,024
4×434.9638.85
top 6.7%133 / 1,817
Pyraminx3.886.25
top 7.1%198 / 2,148
2×22.614.51
top 10.0%375 / 3,074
Skewb3.967.13
top 10.6%162 / 1,291
6×62:25.922:34.31
top 23.6%83 / 437
Square-118.3826.59
top 24.3%132 / 540
7×74:07.094:14.63
top 33.4%102 / 372
3×3 blindfolded3:12.414:01.37
top 55.9%254 / 434

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

MIL Open 2013: 25.03French Championship 2013: 16.00FLIP Open 2013: 16.61Bussières Open 2013: 14.05La Montagne Open 2013: 14.17FLIP Open 2014: 10.65Champagne Summer Open 2014: 12.47France 2015: 12.08Lyon Megaminx Open 2015: 10.27FLIP Open 2015: 10.51DYC Rubik Open 2015: 11.50Nancy Open 2015: 10.63Lyon Christmas Open 2015: 8.66Lyon Megaminx Open 2016: 10.61FLIP Rubik Open 2016: 10.73European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 10.77Champagne Open 2016: 10.37Only Cube Open 2017: 10.93French Championship 2017: 10.07World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 9.61FLIP Open 2017: 8.38Nancy Open 2017: 9.57Croissy Open 2018: 9.82French Championship 2018: 10.47Nantes Open 2018: 9.39Sens Open 2018: 9.34Champagne Open 2018: 9.21Paris Open 2018: 10.17UK Championship 2018: 9.42Pllouvara Open 2023: 8.23Carquef'Open 2024: 7.93Cube en Baie Open 2024: 9.247.9325.0312 Jan 201317 Aug 2024

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-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 0.98 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.93 away.

Targets move as he improves.