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Mateusz Cukier

3×3 · top 3.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2023 · 2023CUKI01

Mateusz Cukier has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.49, set at Hampshire Summer 2026, puts him in the top 3.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 376th in Poland. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since January 2023, he has put 331 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.70 in January 2023 to 8.49, a 46% improvement. Mateusz has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.7% of 284,439 all-time
8.49
signature single · Hampshire Summer 2026
331
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPoland
3×38.4910.16
top 3.7%376 / 6,576
2×22.154.33
top 5.8%476 / 5,422
Pyraminx6.5510.01
top 24.2%1,327 / 4,406
3×3 one-handed21.3927.00
top 24.3%537 / 2,176
Skewb7.1310.23
top 34.7%1,160 / 2,810
4×459.351:06.13
top 35.8%940 / 2,851
Megaminx1:50.082:18.84
top 40.4%537 / 1,384
5×52:01.262:44.30
top 50.0%676 / 1,442
Clock15.6218.35
top 50.4%817 / 1,549
3×3 Fewest Moves41 moves
early days — 1 solve257 / 466
Square-141.73
early days — 2 solves645 / 1,002

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

Cube4fun in Dębica 2023: 15.70Korzenna Spring Open 2023: 14.13Dragon Cubing II 2023: 11.84Hampshire Winter 2024: 11.42No Triangle in Rzeszów 2024: 9.66Chichester Summer 2024: 10.69Dragon Cubing II 2024: 9.94Dragon Cubing X 2025: 9.47Hampshire Autumn 2025: 9.16Mysłowice Cubing Spring 2026: 9.11Hampshire Summer 2026: 8.49Dragon Cubing XII 2026: 8.698.4915.7028 Jan 202322 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.49 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.15 away.

Targets move as he improves.