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Jan Staubach

4×4 · top 1.0% of 83,917 all-time · competing since January 2015 · 2015STAU01

Jan Staubach has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 26.16, set at German Open 2019, puts him in the top 1.0% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 19th in Germany. Until June 2013, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 35 competitions since January 2015, he has put 1,875 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.91 in January 2015 to 6.83, a 43% improvement. Jan has entered 35 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 1.0% of 83,917 all-time
26.16
signature single · German Open 2019
1,875
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 79% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGermany
4×426.1630.24
top 1.0%19 / 1,934
3×36.838.37
top 1.1%61 / 4,109
5×548.9756.03
top 1.5%13 / 1,158
3×3 one-handed12.4716.22
top 3.6%49 / 1,314
6×61:46.641:55.64
top 6.0%25 / 586
Megaminx54.3458.13
top 7.1%52 / 787
2×22.403.42
top 8.0%318 / 2,875
Pyraminx4.117.12
top 8.2%197 / 1,987
7×73:00.263:17.07
top 10.7%37 / 510
3×3 blindfolded1:02.352:15.91
top 13.8%47 / 343
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves—
early days — 2 solves127 / 338
Skewb8.0516.41
top 41.7%553 / 1,169
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 7 cubes · 49:38—
early days — 2 solves85 / 142
4×4 blindfolded10:30.00—
early days — 2 solves51 / 85

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

Frankfurt Cube Days 2015: 11.91Hessen Open 2015: 10.60German Open 2015: 11.05Velbert Open 2015: 10.44German Big Cube Open 2015: 10.59German Nationals 2015: 10.44Cubelonia 2016: 9.56German Nationals 2016: 9.22Cubelonia 2017: 7.17German Big Cube Open 2017: 9.18World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 9.96Belgian Easter 2018: 8.44German Open 2018: 8.28Elsass Open 2018: 7.41Cologne Open 2018: 8.02German Big Cube Open 2018: 8.97Meppel Open 2018: 8.19Awesome Bruchsal Cubing 2018: 8.64German Open 2019: 8.36Hessen Open 2019: 8.75Elsass Open 2019: 7.76Rhein-Neckar Open 2019: 8.49German Nationals 2019: 7.88German Big Cube Open 2019: 7.04Bremium Winter 2019: 6.92Annuntia Open 2020: 7.81Kubkvarna 2022: 6.83Rhein-Neckar Autumn 2023: 7.97Rheinland-Pfalz Open 2024: 8.92Wuppertaler Würfel Wochenende 2025: 7.77South Germany 2025: 8.03German Open 2026: 10.47CuBonn Open 2026: 10.76Aachen Summer Open 2026: 8.40Rubik's German Nationals 2026: 11.546.8311.9117 Jan 201528 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-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 1.16 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.83 away.

Targets move as he improves.