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Fabian Staber

2×2 · top 1.6% of 186,767 all-time · competing since October 2016 · 2016STAB01

Fabian Staber has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.37, set at Vienna Autumn 2025, puts him in the top 1.6% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13th in Austria. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 58 competitions since October 2016, he has put 3,337 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.08 in October 2016 to 8.88, a 56% improvement. Fabian has entered 58 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.6% of 186,767 all-time
1.37
signature single · Vienna Autumn 2025
3,337
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustria
2×21.373.59
top 1.6%13 / 396
4×432.1436.22
top 4.3%13 / 224
3×38.8811.16
top 4.6%33 / 530
Pyraminx3.335.66
top 4.8%18 / 261
Clock5.256.59
top 5.1%3 / 79
5×51:00.861:08.03
top 6.0%11 / 118
6×61:56.552:09.03
top 9.7%8 / 64
Megaminx59.581:10.46
top 9.8%14 / 93
7×72:59.873:07.71
top 10.6%6 / 53
3×3 one-handed16.2518.55
top 10.8%25 / 184
Square-112.9518.30
top 11.8%6 / 73
3×3 blindfolded1:00.701:45.11
top 13.3%9 / 36
Skewb4.446.53
top 14.0%30 / 161
3×3 Fewest Moves30 moves36.67
top 14.8%9 / 53
3×3 Multi-Blind8 of 9 cubes · 56:26—
top 28.9%10 / 17
4×4 blindfolded10:55.00—
early days — 2 solves11 / 12

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

Vienna Open 2016: 20.08Slovenian Open 2017: 14.50Austrian Open 2017: 13.28Ponikva Open 2018: 11.58Slovenia Nationals 2018: 11.38Munich Open 2018: 11.22Austrian Open 2019: 10.68Ponikva Open 2019: 13.71Slovenian Nationals 2019: 9.90Vienna Cube Day 2019: 11.40Prebold Open 2019: 11.89Ljubljana Open 2019: 10.75Salzburg Open 2020: 10.89Speedcubing Slovakia 2022: 12.35Vienna Open 2022: 10.55Bratislava Christmas Cubing 2022: 10.48Edinburgh Spring 2023: 11.61Kampen Open 2023: 11.34German Open 2023: 10.94Aasee Algorithms 2023: 9.95Medvode Open 2023: 10.19Vienna Fasching 2024: 12.01Seomara Cube Fest 2024: 11.11Ponikva Open 2024: 10.31Graz Open 2024: 10.96Sanda Spring 2024: 9.80Maribor Open 2024: 10.93Czech Open 2024: 11.30Autotalo Anime Adventure X 2024: 10.64Estonian Championship 2024: 10.33Finnish Championship 2024: 9.69Helsinki 2024: 10.21Cubing in Ružinov: February 2025: 10.89Vienna Fasching 2025: 10.42Slovenska Bistrica Open 2025: 9.72Linz Summer 2025: 9.13Slovenian Nationals 2025: 9.42Vilniaus Ruduo 2025: 10.43Graz Open 2025: 10.70Vienna Autumn 2025: 10.23Varaždin Open 2025: 10.07Vienna Winter 2026: 11.08Cubing in Ružinov: March 2026: 10.47Langenstein City Blind Open 2026: 9.58Cubing in Ružinov: April 2026: 8.88Vienna Frühling 2026: 10.18Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 10.74Langenstein Summer 2026: 10.378.8820.081 Oct 201622 Aug 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.37 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 2.14 away.

Targets move as he improves.