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Jakub Pańka

2×2 · top 3.1% of 186,767 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022PANK02

Jakub Pańka has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.70, set at Cube4fun League V Zawiercie 2022, puts him in the top 3.1% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 296th in Poland. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since May 2022, he has put 843 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.53 in August 2022 to 8.33, a 63% improvement. Jakub has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 3.1% of 186,767 all-time
1.70
signature single · Cube4fun League V Zawiercie 2022
843
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPoland
2×21.703.26
top 3.1%296 / 5,422
3×38.3310.55
top 3.4%345 / 6,576
Skewb2.986.15
top 4.9%229 / 2,810
Pyraminx3.877.76
top 7.0%484 / 4,406
Clock7.038.42
top 11.0%239 / 1,549
3×3 one-handed17.1421.39
top 12.9%309 / 2,176
4×449.4558.88
top 24.0%676 / 2,851
Square-121.3125.64
top 30.9%320 / 1,002
5×51:35.871:47.65
top 32.2%442 / 1,442
6×63:44.44—
top 60.3%379 / 669
7×75:45.65—
early days — 3 solves335 / 546

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

Cube4fun League VII Pawłowice 2022: 22.53Cube4fun League IX Bielsko-Biała 2022: 18.87Cube4fun League XI Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2022: 19.73Cubing Rising Stars Olesno 2022: 13.40Silesian Cubing Pawłowice 2023: 13.21Goats of Cubing 2023: 11.77Cube4fun Cubers Eve Tarnowskie Góry 2023: 11.63Żory Open 2024: 10.38Chorzów Open 2024: 10.75Silesian Cubing Pawłowice 2024: 11.29Cube4fun Wisła Masters 2024: 9.64Żory Open 2025: 10.25Cubing Mine Rybnik III 2025: 11.58Silesian Cubing Mysłowice 2025: 10.01Gliwice Open 2025: 8.33Silesian Cubing Chorzów 2025: 9.34Chorzów Cubing Days 2025: 9.08Żory Open 2026: 9.55Kielce Open 2026: 10.00Żmigród Open 2026: 9.728.3322.536 Aug 202220 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.70 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.33 away.

Targets move as he improves.