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Jakub Kipa

3×3 · top 0.054% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2010 · 2010KIPA01

Jakub Kipa has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 4.59, set at Polish Championship 2018, puts him in the top 0.054% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 12th in Poland. Until October 2017, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 74 competitions since October 2010, he has put 4,884 official solves on the record across 15 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 15.19 in October 2010 to 4.59, a 70% improvement. Jakub has entered 74 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.054% of 284,439 all-time
4.59
signature single · Polish Championship 2018
4,884
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 standingPoland
3×34.597.94
top 0.054%12 / 6,576
2×21.222.05
top 1.1%137 / 5,422
Pyraminx2.254.02
top 1.6%125 / 4,406
4×428.5233.79
top 2.0%81 / 2,851
3×3 one-handed11.8215.31
top 2.8%79 / 2,176
5×555.491:04.29
top 3.5%67 / 1,442
Megaminx1:03.891:16.58
top 12.0%192 / 1,384
3×3 Fewest Moves30 moves—
top 14.8%93 / 466
3×3 blindfolded1:05.612:10.48
top 14.8%88 / 466
Skewb4.917.73
top 17.4%661 / 2,810
6×62:14.852:33.22
top 17.9%124 / 669
7×74:44.695:07.19
top 46.0%227 / 546
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 3 cubes · 18:16—
top 51.0%104 / 203
Clock20.71—
top 66.8%1,044 / 1,549
Square-147.46—
early days — 2 solves707 / 1,002

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

Rzeszow Open 2010: 15.19Swierklany Open 2011: 12.00Polish Open 2012: 8.83Silesia Open 2012: 9.08Industrial Cube 2012: 8.81European Rubik's Cube Championship 2012: 9.58Warszawa Open 2012: 8.25Jura Open 2012: 8.21Polish Open 2013: 9.21Kraków Open 2013: 8.96Polish Nationals 2013: 8.63World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 8.78SLS Jastrzebie 2013: 8.39Radom Open 2013: 8.92Warsaw Open 2014: 9.21Mielec Cube Day 2014: 8.69SLS Chorzow 2014: 7.57Polish Nationals 2014: 8.01Kielce Cube Attack 2014: 8.31Rubik's Cube European Championships 2014: 8.33Big Cube Krasnik 2014: 7.29Krakow Cubing Spree 2014: 7.79Człuchów Panzer Cube 2014: 7.40Santa Claus Cube Race 2014: 7.19Riviera Cube Week 2015: 7.05Świdnik Open 2015: 8.08ŚLS Gliwice 2015: 6.36Polish Open 2015: 7.83ŚLS Zawiercie 2015: 7.30Speed Days Kraśnik 2015: 7.01SLS Rybnik 2015: 6.61Radomsko Cube Theory 2015: 8.24World Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 7.95US Nationals 2015: 8.41Kaliska Open 2015: 8.13Manhattan Gdańsk Open 2015: 6.41Warsaw Cube Masters 2015: 6.45Polish Championship 2015: 8.07Santa Claus Cube Race 2015: 6.85Beskidy Cubing Day 2016: 7.55Kaskada Open 2016: 8.14Hungarian Nationals 2016: 7.16Tuwim Cube Race 2016: 7.17Łódź Cubing Summer 2016: 7.78Mielec Cube Day 2016: 7.11European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 6.54Ukrainian Nationals 2016: 6.76Polish Championship 2016: 7.70Santa Claus Cube Race 2016: 7.05Piotrków Trybunalski 2017: 7.47Speed Days Kraśnik 2017: 7.18World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 7.51ŚLS Zawiercie 2017: 7.18Ukrainian Nationals 2017: 6.75Polish Open 2017: 7.78Speed Days Kielce 2017: 7.47Polish Nationals 2017: 7.59CFL Santa Claus Cube Race 2017: 7.64Warsaw Cube Masters 2018: 6.98Project Mielec 2018: 6.53GLS Cup III 2018: 7.61WCA European Championship 2018: 6.94Dragon Cubing 2018: 6.52Polish Championship 2018: 4.59Polish Open 2018: 6.58Polish Speedcubing Tour Mielec 2019: 7.19Project Zamość 2019: 7.68WCA World Championship 2019: 6.90Hungarian Summer 2019: 7.58Hungarian Open 2019: 6.66Polish Championship 2019: 7.51Budapest Open 2020: 5.99Darmstadt Dodecahedron Days 2024: 6.71SAJ Águas da Prata 2026: 7.644.5915.1923 Oct 20106 Jun 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-4 3×3 single — 38 people have one; it is 0.59 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.22 away.

Targets move as he improves.