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Ilias Nikolaou

3×3 · top 0.22% of 288,433 all-time · competing since July 2023 · 2023NIKO07

Ilias Nikolaou has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.40, set at Athens Summer Break B 2025, puts him in the top 0.22% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3rd in Greece. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 38 competitions since July 2023, he has put 1,735 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 61% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.07 in July 2023 to 5.40, a 46% improvement. Ilias has entered 38 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.22% of 288,433 all-time
5.40
signature single · Athens Summer Break B 2025
1,735
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGreece
3×35.408.06
top 0.22%3 / 1,004
2×21.252.13
top 1.2%9 / 747
4×426.5833.21
top 1.2%4 / 395
3×3 one-handed10.4914.45
top 1.4%4 / 294
5×550.0456.68
top 1.8%2 / 210
Pyraminx3.585.95
top 5.8%36 / 528
6×61:47.061:52.27
top 6.3%3 / 78
3×3 Fewest Moves26 moves32.00
top 6.3%1 / 79
Skewb3.315.02
top 6.7%17 / 278
7×72:49.833:03.45
top 7.8%4 / 62
Square-112.7316.54
top 11.4%10 / 106
Megaminx1:06.041:16.10
top 13.4%18 / 155
Clock8.8810.32
top 19.3%39 / 192

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

Voula Summer Open 2023: 10.07Loutraki Open 2023: 8.86Salonica Autumn Open 2023: 7.22Greek Nationals 2023: 7.47Athens Cubing Starter Pack 2024: 8.22Katerini Beach Open 2024: 8.27Athens Summer Break A 2024: 8.06Athens Tabletop Festival Open 2024: 8.21Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 8.44Autumn Cubing Reunion Athens B - 2024: 7.92Salonica Open 2024: 7.73Greek Nationals 2024: 8.20Trikala Open 2025: 8.39Cyprus Cubing League I 2025: 8.20Double Triple Athens B 2025: 7.55Peristeri Spring Open 2025: 6.65Cyprus Cubing League II 2025: 8.47Athens Summer Break B 2025: 5.40Athens Summer Solstice 2025: 7.66Thessaloniki Open 2025: 7.04Athens Never Ending Summer B 2025: 7.52Volos Wild Open 2025: 7.60Pre-Nationals Warm-Up Athens 2025: 6.83Greek Nationals 2025: 6.36We Love Cubing Athens B 2026: 8.22Cyprus Cubing League Final 2026: 8.02Easter Fever Athens A 2026: 7.28Halkida Spring Open 2026: 8.39Nicosia Power Plant 2026: 6.97Athens Summer Break A 2026: 7.46Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 7.78Thessaloniki Summer Open 2026: 6.95New Cubing Season Athens B 2026: 7.435.4010.0715 Jul 202320 Sep 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-5 3×3 single — 355 people have one; it is 0.40 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.25 away.

Targets move as he improves.