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Apostolos Palasis

3×3 · top 9.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2018 · 2018PALA01

Apostolos Palasis has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.65, set at Athens Cubing Starter Pack 2024, puts him in the top 9.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 126th in Greece. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since January 2018, he has put 150 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.90 in January 2018 to 10.65, a 60% improvement. Apostolos has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.4% of 284,439 all-time
10.65
signature single · Athens Cubing Starter Pack 2024
150
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGreece
3×310.6517.44
top 9.4%126 / 982
Pyraminx6.9515.45
top 27.5%168 / 524
3×3 one-handed27.1436.51
top 39.7%106 / 288
2×25.327.18
top 43.2%395 / 733
3×3 Fewest Moves48 moves
early days — 3 solves48 / 77

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

Greece New Year 2018: 26.90Greece Autumn 2018: 16.26Athens SNFestival Cubing 2019: 15.94Greek Open 2022: 16.35Voula Summer Open 2023: 15.54Greek Nationals 2023: 15.12Athens Cubing Starter Pack 2024: 10.65Double Triple Athens A 2025: 14.0210.6526.902 Jan 201822 Mar 2025

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 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.65 away.
  • A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 0.95 away.

Targets move as he improves.