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Fabian Simon

3×3 · top 4.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2011 · 2011SIMO02

Fabian Simon has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.68, set at Hessen Open 2012, puts him in the top 4.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 220th in Germany. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 53 competitions since January 2011, he has put 2,067 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.58 in January 2011 to 8.68, a 48% improvement. Fabian has entered 53 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.1% of 284,439 all-time
8.68
signature single · Hessen Open 2012
2,067
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGermany
3×38.6811.41
top 4.1%220 / 4,109
2×22.213.52
top 6.3%255 / 2,875
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves41.33
top 37.3%139 / 338
Skewb7.6910.53
top 39.0%529 / 1,169
3×3 one-handed29.3138.42
top 45.1%585 / 1,314
4×41:08.631:14.94
top 45.5%861 / 1,934
Pyraminx9.2114.99
top 46.7%1,058 / 1,987
3×3 blindfolded3:32.50—
top 61.6%189 / 343
5×52:30.542:56.39
top 66.0%714 / 1,158
Megaminx4:28.97—
top 93.8%725 / 787

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

Aachen Open 2011: 16.58German Open 2011: 13.75Schleswig-Holstein Open 2011: 14.65Munich Open 2011: 13.47Hessen Open 2012: 8.68German Open 2012: 13.68BW Open 2012: 12.47Saarland Open 2012: 12.41Munich Open 2012: 14.70Frankfurt Cube Days 2012: 14.02Hessen Open 2013: 13.10German Open 2013: 11.06Schleswig-Holstein Open 2013: 12.66Munich Open 2013: 12.15Hamburg Open 2014: 10.70Hessen Open 2014: 11.10Rubik's Cube European Championships 2014: 8.84German Nationals 2014: 11.25Franconia Winter 2014: 11.03Schleswig Holstein Open 2014: 9.65Hessen Open 2015: 12.19German Open 2015: 9.96Franconia Open 2015: 10.08German Nationals 2015: 11.78Munich Open 2015: 10.91Frankfurt Cube Days 2016: 10.77Hessen Open 2016: 11.36European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 10.11Tübingen Open 2016: 10.03German Nationals 2016: 10.55Munich Open 2016: 10.88PSKubing 2016: 10.77Frankfurt Cube Days 2017: 10.53Schwandorf Open 2017: 11.66Hessen Open 2017: 11.46Monnem City Cubing 2017: 10.16Munich Open 2017: 10.82PSKubing 2017: 11.09Elsass Open 2018: 11.80Hessen Open 2018: 9.25Monnem City Cubing 2018: 11.13Awesome Bruchsal Cubing 2018: 10.94Rhein-Neckar Open 2019: 11.59Monnem City Cubing 2019: 11.28Frankfurt Cube Days 2020: 10.00Rhein-Neckar Open A 2021: 10.12Rhein-Neckar Open 2022: 9.99German Nationals 2022: 9.60Hessen Open 2023: 9.90Hessen Open 2024: 11.38Hessen Open 2025: 10.90Hessen Open 2026: 10.508.6816.5814 Jan 201116 May 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.68 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.21 away.

Targets move as he improves.