People · Germany
Fritz Gerling
2×2 · top 4.5% of 186,767 all-time · competing since August 2022 · 2022GERL01
Fritz Gerling has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.97, set at Aachen Open 2025, puts him in the top 4.5% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 195th in Germany. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since August 2022, he has put 623 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 18.78 in August 2022 to 9.68, a 48% improvement. Fritz has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Germany | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 1.97 | 3.60 | top 4.5% | 195 / 2,875 | |
| 3×3 | 9.68 | 12.16 | top 6.6% | 336 / 4,109 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.08 | 6.14 | top 8.1% | 191 / 1,987 | |
| 4×4 | 49.15 | 57.25 | top 23.7% | 447 / 1,934 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 22.16 | 32.01 | top 26.5% | 349 / 1,314 | |
| Clock | 10.67 | 14.30 | top 28.4% | 195 / 634 | |
| Skewb | 7.18 | 8.33 | top 35.0% | 477 / 1,169 | |
| 5×5 | 1:52.32 | 2:07.27 | top 44.2% | 469 / 1,158 | |
| Megaminx | 2:05.36 | 2:31.26 | top 48.8% | 364 / 787 | |
| 6×6 | 4:25.42 | 4:42.60 | top 73.3% | 381 / 586 |
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
- 27 Sep 2024Four personal bests in one day at Crazy Cologne Cubing 2024.
- 29 Jun 2024Three personal bests in one day at Rheinland-Pfalz Open 2024.
- 11 May 2024Three personal bests in one day at Hessen Open 2024.
- 20 Apr 2024First sub-10 3×3: 9.70 at German Open 2024.
- 20 Apr 2024Five personal bests in one day at German Open 2024.
- 11 Nov 2023Eight personal bests in one day at Kölner Kubing 2023.
Competitions
- Schnelle Solves Siegen v2 2025 · 30 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Kölner Kubing 2025 · 23 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Schnelle Solves Siegen 2025 · 29 Mar 2025
- Aachen Open 2025 · 18 Jan 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Crazy Cologne Cubing 2024 · 27 Sep 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Schnelle Solves Siegen 2024 · 21 Sep 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Rheinland-Pfalz Open 2024 · 29 Jun 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Hessen Open 2024 · 11 May 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- German Open 2024 · 20 Apr 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- Kölner Kubing 2023 · 11 Nov 2023 — 8 personal bests set
- Rheinland-Pfalz Open 2023 · 9 Sep 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Rheinland-Pfalz Open 2022 · 27 Aug 2022 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Imanuel Müller — met in 121 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Achim Spies — met in 107 rounds, finished ahead 24 times
- Felix Christian Schmidt — met in 105 rounds, finished ahead 22 times
Next targets
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.97 away.
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.68 away.
Targets move as he improves.