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Mateusz Kotwica

Pyraminx · top 0.57% of 129,321 all-time · competing since January 2016 · 2016KOTW01

Mateusz Kotwica has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.62, set at Project Mielec 2018, puts him in the top 0.57% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 54th in Poland. Until April 2012, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 65 competitions since January 2016, he has put 2,985 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His Pyraminx best has come down from 14.71 in January 2016 to 1.62, an 89% improvement. Mateusz has entered 65 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.57% of 129,321 all-time
1.62
signature single · Project Mielec 2018
2,985
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPoland
Pyraminx1.622.91
top 0.57%54 / 4,406
Clock4.236.17
top 2.8%71 / 1,549
2×21.703.52
top 3.1%296 / 5,422
3×38.2311.38
top 3.2%325 / 6,576
4×436.7844.14
top 8.5%268 / 2,851
Skewb4.027.26
top 11.0%463 / 2,810
Square-113.1026.96
top 12.1%130 / 1,002
5×51:13.751:25.11
top 14.3%215 / 1,442
3×3 one-handed18.0725.27
top 15.3%358 / 2,176
Megaminx1:21.641:31.54
top 22.9%328 / 1,384
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves40.33
top 30.0%160 / 466
6×62:52.393:07.10
top 37.3%232 / 669
3×3 blindfolded2:29.21—
top 43.0%203 / 466
7×75:09.51—
top 53.7%276 / 546

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

Beskidy Cubing Day 2016: 14.71Tuwim Cube Race 2016: 7.58Speed Day Lublin 2016: 8.64Mielec Cube Day 2016: 5.44Santa Claus Cube Race 2016: 3.50Staszic Open 2017: 3.76ŚLS Będzin Open 2017: 3.50Speed Days Kraśnik 2017: 3.77Andritz Humenné Open 2017: 3.49Speed Days Kielce 2017: 3.83Polish Nationals 2017: 2.69Speed Days Kraśnik 2018: 3.68Project Mielec 2018: 1.62Project Warszawa 2018: 3.72Project Zamość 2018: 3.29GLS Cup IV 2018: 3.36LLS VII Final 2018: 2.33LLS Meeting Days 2018: 2.53Polish Open 2018: 2.38Polish Speedcubing Tour Biłgoraj 2019: 2.77Polish Speedcubing Tour Nowa Słupia 2019: 2.98Project Zamość 2019: 2.24Dragon Cubing 2019: 1.91Polish Speedcubing Tour Rzeszów 2019: 2.75Project Dębica 2019: 2.20Santa Claus Cube Race Poland 2019: 1.72Polish Speedcubing Tour Biłgoraj 2020: 2.24Lubelska Liga Speedcubingu III v2 2020: 2.60Dragon Cubing 2020: 2.46Lubelska Liga Speedcubingu I Bełżyce 2021: 2.56September Speedcubing Tour Naprawa 2021: 2.97September Speedcubing Tour Rzeszów 2021: 2.43September Speedcubing Tour Kielce 2021: 1.70Polish Championship 2021: 2.44Cubers Eve Lubartów 2021: 2.27Cube4fun League III Lubartów 2022: 2.00Cube4fun League IV Dąbrowa Górnicza 2022: 2.68Cube4fun League V Zawiercie 2022: 2.43Cube4fun League VI Jasło 2022: 2.49Polish Championship 2022: 3.26Cube4fun League VII Pawłowice 2022: 1.96Cube4fun League VIII Bełżyce 2022: 2.04Cube4fun League IX Bielsko-Biała 2022: 2.53Cube4fun League X Rzeszów 2022: 1.87Cube4fun League Final Skierniewice 2022: 2.57Cube4fun in Dębica 2022: 2.79Siedlce Open 2022: 3.00Cube4fun in Dębica 2023: 2.36Cube4fun in Gorlice 2023: 2.20Cube4fun in Jarosław 2023: 2.58Cube4fun Bełżyce Multi Events 2023: 1.97Cube4fun in Biała Podlaska 2023: 2.70All Rounders in Stobierna 2023: 2.65Rzeszów Open 2025: 2.261.6214.719 Jan 20168 Mar 2025

Best single per competition, Pyraminx. 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 0.62 away.
  • A sub-4 Clock single — 741 people have one; it is 0.23 away.

Targets move as he improves.