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Malte Ihlefeld

Pyraminx · top 0.78% of 129,321 all-time · competing since January 2016 · 2016IHLE01

Malte Ihlefeld has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.77, set at Wendlinger Würfelwochenende 2024, puts him in the top 0.78% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13th in Germany. Until April 2012, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 119 competitions since January 2016, he has put 9,014 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 80% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.72 in January 2016 to 6.58, a 63% improvement. Malte has entered 119 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.78% of 129,321 all-time
1.77
signature single · Wendlinger Würfelwochenende 2024
9,014
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 80% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGermany
Pyraminx1.773.12
top 0.78%13 / 1,987
Megaminx36.5743.41
top 0.87%8 / 787
3×36.588.98
top 0.92%48 / 4,109
3×3 Fewest Moves21 moves24.00
top 1.5%10 / 338
4×427.6333.32
top 1.6%34 / 1,934
5×551.1658.14
top 2.1%20 / 1,158
Clock3.915.02
top 2.2%8 / 634
7×72:20.492:33.70
top 2.4%9 / 510
Square-17.7510.04
top 2.7%9 / 533
2×21.743.31
top 3.3%150 / 2,875
6×61:37.391:46.16
top 3.4%17 / 586
3×3 one-handed12.3315.56
top 3.5%46 / 1,314
Skewb2.814.72
top 4.1%42 / 1,169
3×3 blindfolded50.691:12.90
top 10.1%34 / 343
3×3 Multi-Blind7 of 7 cubes · 39:42—
top 26.1%41 / 142
4×4 blindfolded8:07.83—
early days — 2 solves35 / 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

Cubelonia 2016: 17.72Hessen Open 2016: 15.05European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 14.15Tübingen Open 2016: 12.61German Nationals 2016: 10.61PSKubing 2016: 10.84Cubelonia 2017: 12.33Frankfurt Cube Days 2017: 10.81Schwandorf Open 2017: 11.11German Open 2017: 10.72Hessen Open 2017: 9.42German Big Cube Open 2017: 9.92World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 12.16German Nationals 2017: 10.88Monnem City Cubing 2017: 9.68Munich Open 2017: 10.09PSKubing 2017: 10.21Berlin Kubus Projekt 2017: 10.39Frankfurt Cube Days 2018: 9.66Annuntia Open 2018: 9.73German Open 2018: 9.91Elsass Open 2018: 8.25Hessen Open 2018: 9.82Schwandorf Open 2018: 10.60Cologne Open 2018: 7.84WCA European Championship 2018: 10.13Franconia Open 2018: 9.47German Nationals 2018: 9.43Monnem City Cubing 2018: 9.94Munich Open 2018: 8.54German Big Cube Open 2018: 9.65Awesome Bruchsal Cubing 2018: 9.05Berlin Winter Cubing 2019: 8.55Bremium Cubing 2019: 9.31Franconia Spring 2019: 7.27German Open 2019: 8.10Hamburg International 2019: 9.01French Championship 2019: 8.45Hessen Open 2019: 8.13Elsass Open 2019: 8.40Breda Open 2019: 8.88Rhein-Neckar Open 2019: 8.59Swisscubing Cup III 2019: 7.86German Nationals 2019: 8.33Monnem City Cubing 2019: 8.83Franconia Fall 2019: 9.21German Big Cube Open 2019: 7.58Munich Open 2019: 8.79Baden-Württemberg Open 2019: 8.80Bremium Winter 2019: 8.05Berlin Winter Cubing 2020: 8.86Frankfurt Cube Days 2020: 8.55Hamburg International 2020: 8.45Rhein-Neckar Open A 2021: 8.45Kirkkonummen Kuutionvääntelyt 2022: 9.24Lake Constance Cubing 2022: 7.61Franconia Mini Open A 2022: 8.63Rhein-Neckar Open 2022: 8.06Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 8.38German Nationals 2022: 7.59Rheinland-Pfalz Open 2022: 8.20Darmstadt Dodecahedron Days 2022: 8.15Belgian Nationals 2022: 8.23Franconia Winter 2022: 8.08Frozen Lake Constance 2023: 8.25Franconia Mini Open A 2023: 7.64Bretzel Open 2023: 8.36Rhein-Neckar Open 2023: 7.70Cubing in HD 2023: 7.97German Open 2023: 8.04Hessen Open 2023: 8.15Aasee Algorithms 2023: 8.22German Nationals 2023: 8.48Darmstadt Dodecahedron Days 2023: 9.21South Germany 2023: 9.52Rhein-Neckar Autumn 2023: 8.03Cube Madness Schweinfurt 2023: 7.59Central Germany 2024: 8.54French Championship 2024: 8.47Wendlinger Würfelwochenende 2024: 9.13Rheinland-Pfalz Open 2024: 7.52Darmstadt Dodecahedron Days 2024: 8.52Crazy Cologne Cubing 2024: 7.67Rubik's German Nationals 2024: 6.58Frankfurt Cube Days 2024: 8.35Rhein-Neckar Winter 2024: 7.58Hessen Mini Open 2025: 7.90Swiss Nationals 2025: 7.22Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.96Rubik's German Nationals 2025: 7.90Rhein-Neckar Complete Breakdown 2025: 6.85Dreiländereck-Open 2025: 7.91South Germany 2025: 8.12Dreht's Eich in Ergolding 2025: 8.25Rhein-Sieg Open 2026: 8.11French Championship 2026: 9.24Darmstadt Open 2026: 7.32NxN in Jura 2026: 9.45Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 8.94Rubik's German Nationals 2026: 7.516.5817.729 Jan 201628 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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.77 away.
  • A sub-30 Megaminx single — 75 people have one; it is 6.57 away.

Targets move as he improves.