People · Greece
Athanasios Bouboulis
2×2 · top 1.9% of 186,767 all-time · competing since January 2019 · 2019BOUB01
Athanasios Bouboulis has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.45, set at Athens Winter Open 2023, puts him in the top 1.9% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 20th in Greece. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since January 2019, he has put 589 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 77% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 43.06 in January 2019 to 8.37, an 81% improvement. Athanasios has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Greece | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 1.45 | 3.72 | top 1.9% | 20 / 733 | |
| 3×3 | 8.37 | 10.29 | top 3.5% | 51 / 982 | |
| Pyraminx | 3.48 | 5.28 | top 5.4% | 28 / 524 | |
| Clock | 5.43 | 7.27 | top 5.5% | 11 / 180 | |
| 4×4 | 44.66 | 51.23 | top 17.9% | 71 / 384 | |
| Skewb | 5.63 | 6.86 | top 22.9% | 64 / 268 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 21.32 | 27.71 | top 24.1% | 66 / 288 | |
| Square-1 | 19.65 | 26.92 | top 27.2% | 27 / 106 | |
| Megaminx | 1:51.37 | 2:13.79 | top 41.1% | 57 / 155 | |
| 5×5 | 2:06.87 | 2:20.58 | top 53.6% | 100 / 205 | |
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 48 moves | 52.00 | top 74.2% | 48 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 30 Nov 2024Seven personal bests in one day at Greek Nationals 2024.
- 9 Mar 2024Four personal bests in one day at Athens Cubing Starter Pack 2024.
- 8 Dec 2023Three personal bests in one day at Greek Nationals 2023.
- 15 Jul 2023Five personal bests in one day at Voula Summer Open 2023.
- 11 Feb 2023First sub-10 3×3: 9.51 at Athens Winter Open 2023.
- 11 Feb 2023Four personal bests in one day at Athens Winter Open 2023.
Competitions
- Athens Summer Break A 2026 · 13 Jun 2026
- Pre-Nationals Warm-Up Athens 2025 · 15 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Athens Summer Break B 2025 · 15 Jun 2025
- Peristeri Spring Open 2025 · 10 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Double Triple Athens A 2025 · 22 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Greek Nationals 2024 · 30 Nov 2024 — 7 personal bests set
- Autumn Cubing Reunion Athens A - 2024 · 28 Sep 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Athens Summer Break B 2024 · 16 Jun 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Athens Cubing Starter Pack 2024 · 9 Mar 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Greek Nationals 2023 · 8 Dec 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Voula Summer Open 2023 · 15 Jul 2023 — 5 personal bests set
- Athens Winter Open 2023 · 11 Feb 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Greek Open 2022 · 15 Oct 2022 — 6 personal bests set
- Athens SNFestival Cubing 2019 · 29 Jun 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Greece New Year 2019 · 19 Jan 2019
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.
- Michael Eleftheriades — met in 97 rounds, finished ahead 22 times
- Pantos Pantos — met in 92 rounds, finished ahead 67 times
- Panagiotis Christopoulos — met in 90 rounds, finished ahead 40 times
Next targets
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.45 away.
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.37 away.
Targets move as he improves.