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Marcel Niedl

3×3 · top 2.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2019 · 2019NIED02

Marcel Niedl has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.75, set at Medvode Open 2025, puts him in the top 2.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 18th in Austria. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 40 competitions since December 2019, he has put 2,622 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.93 in December 2019 to 7.75, a 54% improvement. Marcel has entered 40 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.4% of 284,439 all-time
7.75
signature single · Medvode Open 2025
2,622
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustria
3×37.759.87
top 2.4%18 / 530
4×429.4932.70
top 2.5%7 / 224
Square-17.9810.10
top 3.0%2 / 73
Pyraminx3.076.56
top 3.9%14 / 261
5×558.051:04.59
top 4.6%7 / 118
2×22.072.87
top 5.2%37 / 396
3×3 one-handed13.5517.22
top 5.3%12 / 184
Clock5.537.38
top 5.8%5 / 79
Skewb3.365.00
top 6.9%13 / 161
Megaminx54.131:01.07
top 7.0%8 / 93
6×61:58.822:04.21
top 10.6%10 / 64
7×73:11.843:24.24
top 13.9%11 / 53
3×3 blindfolded1:54.76—
top 31.6%17 / 36
3×3 Fewest Moves40 moves41.67
top 48.3%24 / 53

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

Tirol Open 2019: 16.93Frankfurt Cube Days 2020: 14.18Project Pawłowice 2021: 12.41Rhein-Neckar Open B 2021: 10.40Speedcubing Slovakia 2022: 11.03German Nationals 2022: 9.76Slovenian Nationals 2022: 10.35Vienna Open 2022: 9.25Vienna Fasching 2023: 9.52Lužice Open 2023: 9.54Ponikva Open 2023: 9.50Wiener Frühling 2023: 8.12Zreče Open 2023: 8.52Slovenian Nationals 2023: 11.20Vienna Fasching 2024: 10.77Graz Open 2024: 9.57Maribor Open 2024: 10.39Vienna Autumn 2024: 10.20Sanda Winter 2025: 9.12Cubing in Ružinov: February 2025: 10.35Vienna Fasching 2025: 9.56Slovenska Bistrica Open 2025: 9.40Zagreb Open 2025: 9.31Trebelno Open 2025: 8.80Linz Summer 2025: 8.79Slovenian Nationals 2025: 9.55Graz Open 2025: 9.05Rhein-Neckar Complete Breakdown 2025: 9.70Medvode Open 2025: 7.75Vienna Winter 2026: 9.49Prlekija Open 2026: 8.62Maribor Open 2026: 8.23Langenstein City Blind Open 2026: 9.04Cubing in Ružinov: April 2026: 9.12Vienna Frühling 2026: 9.05Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 9.407.7516.9314 Dec 201916 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.75 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 4.49 away.

Targets move as he improves.