Fun Statistics

Here you see a selection of fun statistics, based on official WCA competition results.

Generated on Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:06 +0100.

• Youngest and oldest Rubik's Cube solvers
• Youngest and oldest Rubik's Cube blindfolded solvers
• Youngest and oldest Magic solvers
• Best "medal collection"
• Sum of 3x3/4x4/5x5 ranks
• Sum of all single ranks
• Sum of all average ranks
• Appearances in Rubik's Cube top 100 results
• Most Sub-X solves in Rubik's Cube
• Rubik's Cube Blindfolded longest success streak
• Rubik's Cube Blindfolded recent success rate
• World records in most events
• Best Podiums in Rubik's Cube event
• Oldest standing world records
• Most Persons
• Most Competitions
• Most Countries
• Most solves in one competition or year

Youngest and oldest Rubik's Cube solvers (info)
Person	Years	Months	Days	Time	|	Person	Years	Months	Days	Time
Yi Hui (回益)	3	6	5	2:43.34	|	Egon Micheelsen	90	7	25	5:52.16
Shengzhi Gao (高圣知)	3	8	21	1:02.30	|	Xinxian Li (李新贤)	88	6	16	4:43.52
Yuhan Shi (史毓涵)	3	11	19	2:41.71	|	Yongchao Wang (王永超)	82	6	15	4:59.18
Itsaya Jaruwattanakun (อิษยา จารุวัฒนกุล)	4		7	2:09.91	|	Adelina Estevao	81	10	19	1:43.68
Zihan Liu (刘子涵)	4	2	27	1:08.46	|	Martin Berger	80	11	29	2:38.94
Chenbai Zhao (赵陈柏)	4	5	15	1:20.00	|	Rune Wesström	80	4	25	33.34
Enxi Xie (谢恩希)	4	6	10	1:28.06	|	Hideaki Tomoyori (友寄英哲)	78	6	11	45.02
Zhanlu Zhang	4	6	14	1:30.78	|	Lilian Micheelsen	75	11	7	2:29.52
Zhichu Chen (陈之初)	4	6	23	1:04.83	|	Haruo Aoki (青木治雄)	75	10	4	40.46
Sichen Wang (王思陈)	4	7	27	1:39.40	|	Zhiwei Jin	75	7	14	1:43.80

Youngest and oldest Rubik's Cube blindfolded solvers (info)
Person	Years	Months	Days	Time	|	Person	Years	Months	Days	Time
Rakshita Kanakaraj	7	11	25	6:28.02	|	Mats Bergsten	61	9	8	1:25.44
Shufan Wang (王澍凡)	8	3	30	10:52.00	|	Bill McGaugh	57	4	17	8:43.22
Dhanayush Raninga	9	4	12	8:25.08	|	Walter Monti	57	3	21	7:33.30
Mai Ito (伊藤 舞)	10	1	20	6:33.50	|	Robert D. Johnson	56	10	12	7:51.21
Justin Adsuara	10	2	1	6:33.75	|	Bruce Norskog	54	10	9	7:17.03
Bernett Orlando	10	4	21	3:55.77	|	Ernie Valdés	52	5	7	5:14.00
Shusei Tabuchi (田渕柊星)	10	6	4	4:06.75	|	John Louis	51	4	13	8:56.91
Will Ballard	11	10		6:35.56	|	Javier Santos	51	2	28	10:42.00
Raphael Talatala	11	11	9	3:18.84	|	Mats Luthman	51	1	1	4:00.03
Douwe Wermer	12		7	7:17.03	|	Mike Hughey	49	7	22	1:35.94

Youngest and oldest Magic solvers (info)
Person	Years	Months	Days	Time	|	Person	Years	Months	Days	Time
Hannah Logan	3	8		14.06	|	Grada Ooms	64	10	12	2.91
Aina Hashimoto (橋本愛那)	3	11	2	8.72	|	Carol Joyce	54	6	23	2.13
Jillian Tin	5	5	26	9.75	|	Magdolna Nagy	54	3	12	3.13
Yuhang Liu (刘宇航)	5	9	1	4.63	|	Eiji Okeda (桶田英次)	54		17	3.59
Emma Logan	5	9	2	8.88	|	Peter Douthwright	50	10	3	1.94
Frankie Sell	5	9	27	8.02	|	Jay Satterfield	49	8	8	2.46
Aje Derian Parenrengi	5	10	1	4.96	|	Ton Dennenbroek	49	8	1	4.33
Adhika Ichwan Saniputra	6	2	21	2.48	|	Mike Hughey	49	7	22	1.69
Francisco Jordan Rivera Castillon	6	3		6.52	|	Bob Burton Sr.	49	1	3	2.53
Enxi Xie (谢恩希)	6	6	10	5.36	|	Jean-Louis Mathieu	48	8	10	2.11

Best "medal collection" (3x3x3 and overall)
Person	Gold	Silver	Bronze	|	Person	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Erik Akkersdijk	37	16	4	|	Erik Akkersdijk	337	173	93
Tomasz Żołnowski	28	10	3	|	Dan Cohen	191	81	39
Rowe Hessler	23	7	5	|	Bence Barát	161	92	61
Kanneti Sae Han (คันธ์เนตี แซ่ห่าน)	21	2	3	|	Henrik Buus Aagaard	110	73	45
Edouard Chambon	17	13	3	|	Rowe Hessler	107	53	33
Harris Chan	15	3	1	|	Milán Baticz	100	114	70
Dan Cohen	14	12	3	|	Feliks Zemdegs	99	11	6
Breandan Vallance	14	4	5	|	Timothy Sun	92	23	18
Shotaro Makisumi (牧角 章太郎)	14	4	2	|	Clément Gallet	82	75	72
Anssi Vanhala	14	2	1	|	Pedro Santos Guimarães	79	35	10

Sum of 3x3/4x4/5x5 ranks (Single | Average)
Person	Sum	3x3	4x4	5x5	|	Person	Sum	3x3	4x4	5x5
Feliks Zemdegs	4	1	2	1	|	Feliks Zemdegs	3	1	1	1
Asia Konvittayayotin (เอเชีย กรวิทย์โยธิน)	15	2	9	4	|	Yu Nakajima (中島 悠)	20	9	7	4
Dan Cohen	21	11	8	2	|	Asia Konvittayayotin (เอเชีย กรวิทย์โยธิน)	23	13	4	6
Mats Valk	34	3	1	30	|	Dan Cohen	27	22	3	2
Erik Akkersdijk	38	9	19	10	|	Giovanni Contardi	32	5	2	25
Yumu Tabuchi (田渕雄夢)	40	18	4	18	|	Nipat Charoenpholphant (นิพัฒน์ เจริญพลพันธุ์)	33	11	9	13
Giovanni Contardi	40	24	5	11	|	Yumu Tabuchi (田渕雄夢)	38	12	10	16
Nipat Charoenpholphant (นิพัฒน์ เจริญพลพันธุ์)	42	4	14	24	|	Erik Akkersdijk	39	14	17	8
Cornelius Dieckmann	47	10	24	13	|	Mats Valk	41	10	5	26
Yu Nakajima (中島 悠)	59	50	6	3	|	Milán Baticz	67	21	22	24

Sum of all single ranks
Person	Sum	333	444	555	222	BF	OH	FM	FT	meg	pyr	sq1	clo	666	777	mag	mma	4BF	5BF	MBF
Dan Cohen	773	11	8	2	54	67	40	72	74	43	21	16	26	9	9	54	41	68	52	106
Milán Baticz	840	22	10	29	54	44	63	25	92	18	29	60	53	27	8	98	5	58	52	93
Bence Barát	869	20	48	14	83	14	46	54	59	30	12	10	130	6	3	191	33	42	38	36
Erik Akkersdijk	886	9	19	10	4	134	96	7	15	16	14	100	54	15	15	32	73	108	52	113
Simon Westlund	1410	60	15	71	68	80	35	12	27	1	23	32	43	30	27	484	275	20	20	87
Cornelius Dieckmann	1657	10	24	13	71	22	24	111	256	138	349	158	134	32	52	32	98	35	37	61
Maarten Smit	1933	131	63	80	229	55	212	54	269	28	83	19	9	35	55	362	106	44	44	55
Mats Valk	2030	3	1	30	22	335	5	7	158	66	56	7	113	22	66	150	523	124	52	290
Dániel Varga	2586	333	258	77	416	239	17	40	53	132	83	162	107	70	46	54	231	124	52	92
Feliks Zemdegs	2634	1	2	1	16	17	3	91	431	10	27	41	49	2	7	633	1157	2	15	129

Sum of all average ranks
Person	Sum	333	444	555	222	OH	FT	meg	pyr	sq1	clo	666	777	mag	mma
Dan Cohen	434	22	3	2	3	39	80	39	25	6	34	10	10	119	42
Erik Akkersdijk	545	14	17	8	29	64	17	10	23	119	59	23	13	43	106
Milán Baticz	561	21	22	24	7	57	84	26	41	88	48	30	16	92	5
Bence Barát	742	56	24	10	8	107	70	20	96	15	148	8	3	141	36
Simon Westlund	1085	36	29	45	18	77	22	1	23	60	36	18	25	517	178
Mats Valk	1251	10	5	26	5	16	121	112	105	26	145	37	73	92	478
Nipat Charoenpholphant (นิพัฒน์ เจริญพลพันธุ์)	1257	11	9	13	9	9	254	85	81	372	182	42	75	30	85
Cornelius Dieckmann	1367	4	33	37	12	24	254	124	202	204	287	45	52	30	59
Maarten Smit	1391	63	83	65	42	166	254	30	53	42	6	35	55	346	151
Robert Yau	1450	15	27	28	70	45	86	24	101	55	124	51	86	466	272

Appearances in Rubik's Cube top 100 results (Single | Average)
Person	Appearances	|	Person	Appearances
Feliks Zemdegs	38	|	Feliks Zemdegs	26
Mats Valk	8	|	Mats Valk	14
Rowe Hessler	6	|	Piti Pichedpan (ปิติ พิเชษฐพันธ์)	9
Erik Akkersdijk	6	|	Rowe Hessler	9
Michał Pleskowicz	4	|	Michał Pleskowicz	6
Piti Pichedpan (ปิติ พิเชษฐพันธ์)	4	|	Nipat Charoenpholphant (นิพัฒน์ เจริญพลพันธุ์)	6
Nipat Charoenpholphant (นิพัฒน์ เจริญพลพันธุ์)	4	|	Cornelius Dieckmann	6
Dan Cohen	3	|	Giovanni Contardi	4
Zhouheng Sun (孙舟横)	2	|	Yu Nakajima (中島 悠)	4
Kanneti Sae Han (คันธ์เนตี แซ่ห่าน)	2	|	Kanneti Sae Han (คันธ์เนตี แซ่ห่าน)	3

Most Sub-X solves in Rubik's Cube
Name	<10	|	Name	<9	|	Name	<8	|	Name	<7
Rowe Hessler	132	|	Feliks Zemdegs	88	|	Feliks Zemdegs	44	|	Feliks Zemdegs	9
Feliks Zemdegs	129	|	Mats Valk	54	|	Mats Valk	10	|	Nipat Charoenpholphant (นิพัฒน์ เจริญพลพันธุ์)	3
Erik Akkersdijk	125	|	Rowe Hessler	43	|	Rowe Hessler	8	|	Mats Valk	2
Mats Valk	110	|	Erik Akkersdijk	35	|	Piti Pichedpan (ปิติ พิเชษฐพันธ์)	8	|	Rowe Hessler	1
Breandan Vallance	105	|	Michał Pleskowicz	35	|	Erik Akkersdijk	6	|	Che-Ting Chu (朱哲廷)	1
Kanneti Sae Han (คันธ์เนตี แซ่ห่าน)	97	|	Cornelius Dieckmann	34	|	Nipat Charoenpholphant (นิพัฒน์ เจริญพลพันธุ์)	6	|	Anthony Brooks	1
Nipat Charoenpholphant (นิพัฒน์ เจริญพลพันธุ์)	93	|	Piti Pichedpan (ปิติ พิเชษฐพันธ์)	34	|	Cornelius Dieckmann	5	|	Asia Konvittayayotin (เอเชีย กรวิทย์โยธิน)	1
Piti Pichedpan (ปิติ พิเชษฐพันธ์)	91	|	Nipat Charoenpholphant (นิพัฒน์ เจริญพลพันธุ์)	32	|	Michał Pleskowicz	5	|	Stephen Adhisaputra	1
Tomasz Żołnowski	85	|	Kanneti Sae Han (คันธ์เนตี แซ่ห่าน)	29	|	Dan Cohen	4	|
Giovanni Contardi	79	|	Giovanni Contardi	27	|	Giovanni Contardi	3	|

Rubik's Cube Blindfolded longest success streak
Person	Length		Best	Avg	Worst	When?
Tim Habermaas	37		1:19.43	1:55.10	3:50.28	Nov 2009 - ongoing...
Clément Gallet	31		2:10.21	3:02.13	5:28.43	Apr 2008 - Jan 2009
Sébastien Auroux	17		1:45.18	2:35.21	4:18.61	Aug 2011 - Nov 2011
Bernett Orlando	15		2:24.69	3:24.69	5:22.03	Oct 2006 - Oct 2008
Rafał Guzewicz	14		1:04.28	1:27.74	2:45.55	Aug 2008 - Sep 2009
Tomasz Żołnowski	13		3:40.78	6:51.78	8:36.72	Jul 2010 - Aug 2010
Mike Hughey	12		1:15.36	1:37.95	2:11.31	Nov 2010 - Jun 2011
Leyan Lo	12		1:28.82	1:55.90	2:22.84	Jan 2006 - Aug 2006
Stefan Pochmann	12		3:01.58	4:29.73	5:52.06	Oct 2007 - Aug 2009
István Kocza	11		1:46.46	2:35.17	4:50.31	Oct 2009 - Jan 2010

Rubik's Cube Blindfolded recent success rate (since Feb 4, 2011 - minimum 5 attempts)
Person	Rate	Solves	Attempts		Best	Avg	Worst
Tim Habermaas	100.00 %	18	18		1:28.33	1:50.49	2:29.86
Ludwig Choi	90.91 %	10	11		3:25.41	4:45.79	6:40.77
Marcell Endrey	86.67 %	13	15		31.98	43.73	55.72
Rizky Aditya Ramadhan	83.33 %	10	12		2:53.52	3:12.29	4:07.38
Tomoki Kubo (久保友樹)	83.33 %	5	6		1:02.36	1:09.56	1:19.27
Fernando Daniel Hernández Sánchez	83.33 %	5	6		3:23.93	3:55.97	4:47.63
Maxim Chechnev	83.33 %	5	6		3:23.93	8:01.98	12:01.00
Clément Gallet	80.60 %	54	67		2:09.94	3:15.97	4:49.88
Worasil Bunpeam (วรศิลป์ บุญเปี่ยม)	80.00 %	4	5		2:02.63	2:49.42	3:30.28
Mike Hughey	79.17 %	19	24		1:04.34	1:39.31	2:29.63

World records in most events (current and past)
Person	Events	|	Competition	Events	|	Country	Events
Feliks Zemdegs	7	|	World Championship 2003	13	|	USA	17
Mátyás Kuti	7	|	Euro 2004	7	|	Hungary	13
Stefan Pochmann	6	|	US Nationals 2006	7	|	Poland	12
Dan Cohen	5	|	World Championship 2005	7	|	Japan	11
Erik Akkersdijk	5	|	Belgian Open 2007	6	|	Netherlands	11
Chris Hardwick	4	|	Belgian Open 2008	6	|	Sweden	10
Shotaro Makisumi (牧角 章太郎)	4	|	Polish Open 2007	6	|	Germany	9
Gunnar Krig	3	|	World Championship 2007	6	|	Australia	8
Jaap Scherphuis	3	|	Caltech Dallas 2005	5	|	China	7
Lars Vandenbergh	3	|	Dutch Masters 2008	5	|	France	7

Best Podiums in Rubik's Cube event
Competition	Sum	First		Second		Third
World Championship 2011	27.79	Michał Pleskowicz	8.65	Rowe Hessler	9.56	Feliks Zemdegs	9.58
German Nationals 2011	27.94	Cornelius Dieckmann	8.52	Mats Valk	9.38	Philipp Weyer	10.04
UT Open 2011	29.23	Yu Nakajima (中島 悠)	9.28	Arifumi Fushimi (伏見有史)	9.94	Yu Sajima (佐島 優)	10.01
German Open 2011	29.30	Mats Valk	9.09	Sebastian Weyer	9.91	Cornelius Dieckmann	10.30
Hua Hin Open 2011	29.47	Nipat Charoenpholphant (นิพัฒน์ เจริญพลพันธุ์)	9.41	Piti Pichedpan (ปิติ พิเชษฐพันธ์)	9.72	Asia Konvittayayotin (เอเชีย กรวิทย์โยธิน)	10.34
Bridgewater Open 2011	29.55	Rowe Hessler	8.27	John Tamanas	10.13	Dan Cohen	11.15
Amstelveen Open 2011	29.59	Erik Akkersdijk	9.46	Mats Valk	9.66	Breandan Vallance	10.47
Czech Open 2011	29.64	Milán Baticz	9.62	Michał Pleskowicz	9.80	Morten Arborg	10.22
Hokuriku Eve 2011	29.93	Yu Nakajima (中島 悠)	9.39	Mitsuki Gunji (郡司光貴)	10.20	Yu Sajima (佐島 優)	10.34
Dutch Open 2011	29.95	Mats Valk	9.34	Milán Baticz	10.22	Maarten Smit	10.39

Oldest standing world records (info)
Event	Type	Days	Result	Person	Competition
3x3 fewest moves	Single	1016	22	Jimmy Coll	Barcelona Open 2009
3x3 fewest moves	Single	568	22	István Kocza	Czech Open 2010
Square-1	Single	489	8.65	Bingliang Li (李炳良)	Guangdong Open 2010
2x2 Cube	Average	448	2.12	Feliks Zemdegs	Melbourne Cube Day 2010
3x3 with feet	Single	378	31.56	Anssi Vanhala	Helsinki Open 2011
Megaminx	Single	288	42.28	Simon Westlund	Danish Open 2011
Megaminx	Average	288	49.90	Simon Westlund	Danish Open 2011
Rubik's Magic	Single	287	0.69	Yuxuan Wang (王宇轩)	Beijing Spring 2011
Master Magic	Single	266	1.68	Ernie Pulchny	Park Ridge Open 2011
5x5 blindfolded	Single	259	9:48.58	Ville Seppänen	Kirkkonummi Open 2011

Most Persons (info)
Event	Persons	|	Competition	Persons	|	Country	Persons
Rubik's Cube	15927	|	World Championship 2009	327	|	USA	3185
2x2 Cube	7658	|	World Championship 2011	292	|	China	2676
4x4 Cube	5217	|	Aachen Open 2011	230	|	Indonesia	886
3x3 one-handed	5043	|	Euro 2010	227	|	India	794
Rubik's Magic	3885	|	US Nationals 2010	227	|	Germany	616
Pyraminx	3274	|	World Championship 2007	214	|	Japan	607
5x5 Cube	2996	|	US Nationals 2011	204	|	Canada	534
3x3 blindfolded	2105	|	Beijing Summer Open 2009	162	|	Taiwan	498
Megaminx	1601	|	Guangdong Open 2009	162	|	France	486
Master Magic	1487	|	Spanish Championship 2009	158	|	Spain	466

Most Competitions (info)
Person	Competitions	|	Event	Competitions	|	Country	Competitions
Bob Burton	86	|	Rubik's Cube	920	|	USA	226
Clément Gallet	85	|	3x3 one-handed	823	|	China	97
Arnaud van Galen	82	|	4x4 Cube	820	|	Japan	48
Ton Dennenbroek	80	|	3x3 blindfolded	800	|	France	47
François Courtès	80	|	2x2 Cube	781	|	Poland	38
Lars Vandenbergh	80	|	5x5 Cube	692	|	Germany	35
Ron van Bruchem	77	|	Rubik's Magic	667	|	Canada	30
Erik Akkersdijk	77	|	Pyraminx	543	|	Spain	30
Shelley Chang	71	|	Master Magic	511	|	Indonesia	29
Adam Zamora	66	|	Square-1	467	|	Italy	28

Most Countries (info)
Person	Countries	|	Event	Countries	|	Competition	Countries
Arnaud van Galen	25	|	Rubik's Cube	51	|	World Championship 2011	35
Anders Larsson	23	|	2x2 Cube	50	|	World Championship 2009	32
Clément Gallet	18	|	4x4 Cube	50	|	World Championship 2007	28
István Kocza	18	|	3x3 one-handed	48	|	Euro 2010	26
Milán Baticz	18	|	3x3 blindfolded	47	|	World Championship 1982	19
Lars Vandenbergh	17	|	5x5 Cube	46	|	Aachen Open 2011	18
Olivér Perge	17	|	Rubik's Magic	46	|	Euro 2006	16
Bence Barát	16	|	Pyraminx	45	|	World Championship 2005	16
Gábor Szabó	16	|	Megaminx	42	|	Aachen Open 2010	15
Ron van Bruchem	16	|	Master Magic	42	|	Czech Open 2011	15

Most solves in one competition or year
Person	Solves	Competition	|	Person	Solves	Year
Dan Cohen	150 / 162	US Nationals 2011	|	Sébastien Auroux	1842 / 1922	2011
Bence Barát	146 / 152	Pabianice Open 2010	|	Erik Akkersdijk	1477 / 1609	2010
Timothy Sun	145 / 158	US Nationals 2010	|	François Courtès	1407 / 1576	2011
Milán Baticz	140 / 149	Pabianice Open 2010	|	Bence Barát	1349 / 1392	2010
David Woner	139 / 145	US Nationals 2011	|	Arnaud van Galen	1244 / 1308	2009
Feliks Zemdegs	135 / 143	World Championship 2011	|	Clément Gallet	1213 / 1249	2011
Daniel Sheppard	134 / 141	Danish Open 2011	|	Lars Vandenbergh	922 / 945	2009
Simon Westlund	133 / 137	Helsinki Open 2011	|	Joey Gouly	903 / 984	2010
Michał Pleskowicz	133 / 140	Polish Nationals 2011	|	Dan Cohen	889 / 960	2011
Michael Gottlieb	128 / 137	US Nationals 2010	|	Jan Bentlage	883 / 925	2011