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Livio Stössel

3×3 · top 5.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2017 · 2017STOS01

Livio Stössel has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.17, set at Swiss Nationals 2025, puts him in the top 5.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 66th in Switzerland. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 32 competitions since February 2017, he has put 1,035 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 47.27 in February 2017 to 9.17, an 81% improvement. Livio has entered 32 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.3% of 284,439 all-time
9.17
signature single · Swiss Nationals 2025
1,035
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSwitzerland
3×39.1712.53
top 5.3%66 / 1,197
Pyraminx3.847.57
top 6.9%61 / 655
2×22.535.21
top 9.2%127 / 913
Skewb4.069.34
top 11.3%62 / 388
4×443.5450.35
top 16.5%69 / 462
Square-116.8627.44
top 20.7%35 / 159
5×51:28.661:45.64
top 26.2%61 / 266
Clock10.5712.46
top 27.9%72 / 226
3×3 one-handed23.1632.88
top 29.2%95 / 367
3×3 Fewest Moves44 moves54.00
top 62.5%68 / 97
Megaminx2:50.13—
top 70.3%143 / 207
3×3 blindfolded4:40.18—
early days — 2 solves62 / 87

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

Swisscubing Cup I 2017: 47.27Swisscubing Cup II 2017: 42.72Swiss Open 2017: 19.51Swisscubing Cup Final 2017: 17.76Zurich Open 2017: 15.38Swiss Nationals 2017: 16.32Liechtenstein Open 2018: 15.08Xlingen Open 2018: 16.74Hotel Cube 2018: 14.84Zentralschweiz 2018: 12.88Swisscubing Cup III 2018: 12.50Argovia Open 2018: 13.93Swisscubing Cup Final 2018: 14.06Zentralschweiz 2019: 12.56Swiss Nationals 2019: 13.65Offline Schwyz Saturday 2021: 12.72Swisscubing Cup III 2022: 13.02Swisscubing Cup IV 2022: 12.27Swiss Nationals 2022: 12.10Chippenham Autumn 2022: 13.81Swisscubing Cup II 2024: 11.91Bellinzona Open 2024: 11.03Swisscubing Cup IV 2024: 11.94Swiss Nationals 2024: 12.32Swisscubing Cup III 2025: 11.06Swiss Nationals 2025: 9.17Swisscubing Cup V 2025: 11.48Swiss Science Open 2025: 10.45Swisscubing Cup Final 2025: 10.03Chääswürfel 2025: 10.759.1747.274 Feb 201731 Dec 2025

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.17 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.84 away.

Targets move as he improves.