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Lir Ukaj

3×3 · top 0.16% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2016 · 2016UKAJ01

Lir Ukaj has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.21, set at Croatian Championship 2024, puts him in the top 0.16% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in Kosovo. Until November 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 50 competitions since February 2016, he has put 2,644 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.79 in February 2016 to 5.21, a 69% improvement. Lir has entered 50 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.16% of 284,439 all-time
5.21
signature single · Croatian Championship 2024
2,644
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingKosovo
3×35.216.61
top 0.16%1 / 25
2×20.922.42
top 0.41%1 / 19
4×424.6628.07
top 0.62%1 / 8
5×547.9652.98
top 1.3%1 / 3
3×3 one-handed10.8914.79
top 1.7%1 / 7
Pyraminx2.413.68
top 2.0%1 / 8
6×61:43.191:56.13
top 5.0%1 / 1
Megaminx54.071:01.92
top 7.0%1 / 2
Skewb3.528.61
top 7.9%1 / 4
7×72:58.963:13.47
top 10.3%1 / 1
3×3 blindfolded2:30.36—
top 43.3%2 / 2
Square-130.3636.23
top 50.0%1 / 2

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

Phalsbourg Winter Open 2016: 16.79European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 10.87French Championship 2017: 10.60World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 8.19Ljubljana Open 2017: 8.90Italian Championship 2017: 9.29Bulgarian Open 2018: 9.91French Championship 2018: 8.72Albanian Open 2018: 8.30WCA European Championship 2018: 8.94Croatian Open 2018: 8.22Paris Open 2018: 8.18Macedonia Open 2018: 8.51Kosovo Open 2018: 8.21Macedonia Winter 2019: 7.81Montenegro Open 2019: 8.05Albanian Open 2019: 7.99Sofia Spring 2019: 7.59Slovenian Nationals 2019: 7.28Banja Luka Open 2019: 7.77WCA World Championship 2019: 7.33Croatian Nationals 2019: 6.98Bački Petrovac Open 2019: 6.81Macedonian Nationals 2019: 6.83Montenegro Nationals 2019: 6.65Kosovo Open 2019: 6.85Swisscubing Cup I 2020: 6.81Basel Open 2020: 6.29Offline Schwyz Saturday 2021: 6.56Osijek Re-Open 2021: 6.89Serbian Championship 2022: 7.07Cubing at Sopro 2022: 6.42Albanian Open 2022: 6.80Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 6.60Belgrade Summer 2022: 6.93G'été Open 2022: 6.64Massy Palais'Open B 2022: 6.46Athens Winter Open 2023: 7.43Macedonia Open 2023: 6.87Kosovo Open 2023: 6.06Kirkkonummen Kuutiokemut 2023: 6.73Croatian Championship 2024: 5.21Open the Door Moselle 2024: 5.44Osijek Open 2025: 6.69Zadar Open 2025: 5.66Cube en Baie Open 2025: 6.43Chevry Miel 2025: 6.01Palais'10Open 2025: 6.28Back to Buchy 2025: 6.00Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 5.705.2116.7913 Feb 201616 Jul 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 — 344 people have one; it is 0.21 away.
  • A sub-20 4×4 single — 42 people have one; it is 4.66 away.

Targets move as he improves.