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Ulysse Merlin

Megaminx · top 0.095% of 34,786 all-time · competing since June 2018 · 2018MERL03

Ulysse Merlin has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the Megaminx: a personal-best single of 27.78, set at Brest Open 2024, puts him in the top 0.095% of the 34,786 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in France. Until December 2019, no official Megaminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 44 competitions since June 2018, he has put 2,086 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.37 in June 2018 to 5.68, a 63% improvement. Ulysse has entered 44 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Megaminx
best event — top 0.095% of 34,786 all-time
27.78
signature single · Brest Open 2024
2,086
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFrance
Megaminx27.7834.46
top 0.095%1 / 867
3×35.687.05
top 0.32%22 / 4,746
2×20.922.70
top 0.41%14 / 3,074
3×3 one-handed9.3312.46
top 0.66%13 / 1,490
Skewb2.335.04
top 2.3%37 / 1,291
Pyraminx2.644.99
top 2.6%69 / 2,148
4×429.6235.79
top 2.6%49 / 1,817
5×51:08.771:15.83
top 10.8%93 / 1,024
3×3 Fewest Moves30 moves—
early days — 2 solves80 / 367
Square-119.7226.85
top 27.3%146 / 540

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

Hem MariCubik Open 2018: 15.37Champagne Open 2018: 11.80Zonhoven Autumn Open 2018: 11.61Mundet Open 2018: 10.41Annuntia Open 2019: 10.72Chelles Open 2019: 10.09French Championship 2019: 10.39Brugge Open 2019: 7.63Hem MariCubik Open 2019: 8.22Champagne Open 2019: 7.30Paris Open 2019: 8.48Seraing Open 2019: 7.43Chelles Open 2020: 7.54Paris Open 2022: 7.66Sézanne Open 2022: 7.93French Championship 2022: 7.22Slow N Spooky Open 2022: 6.90Gijzegem Open 2022: 6.61Hem MariCubik Winter Open B 2023: 6.93Chelles Open 2023: 6.65Douvrin Open 2023: 6.79French Championship 2023: 7.44Open de Lumes 2023: 6.83Lyon Last Layer Open 2023: 5.99Sézanne Open 2023: 6.25Champagne Open 2023: 5.77Visé Sunday Open 2023: 6.29Hayange Open 2024: 5.76Hurlubiks Cube Mouscron 2024: 6.40Chelles Open 2024: 6.07Only Oullins Open 2024: 6.81French Championship 2024: 6.29 HEM MariCubik Open 2024: 6.68Tigery Open 2024: 5.68Douvrin Open 2024: 6.20Warm Up Portugalete 2024: 6.50Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 7.29Palais'Open 2024: 6.66Brest Open 2024: 6.76St-Méloir-des-Ondes Breizh Open 2024: 7.45Charente Open 2025: 7.35French Championship 2025: 6.87Thouaré Open 2025: 6.05Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 7.165.6815.3710 Jun 201816 Jul 2026

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-25 Megaminx single — 8 people have one; it is 2.78 away.
  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.68 away.

Targets move as he improves.