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Mateusz Padlo

Pyraminx · top 1.9% of 129,321 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022PADL01

Mateusz Padlo has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.37, set at PBs in Palisades 2024, puts him in the top 1.9% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 494th in the United States. Until April 2011, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 28 competitions since July 2022, he has put 981 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.74 in July 2022 to 7.77, a 47% improvement. Mateusz has entered 28 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 1.9% of 129,321 all-time
2.37
signature single · PBs in Palisades 2024
981
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Pyraminx2.374.51
top 1.9%494 / 28,708
3×37.7710.31
top 2.4%1,403 / 59,724
2×21.732.62
top 3.2%1,253 / 40,951
Skewb3.365.74
top 6.9%1,064 / 18,907
4×438.5840.60
top 10.4%1,548 / 19,072
5×51:12.931:17.79
top 13.7%1,051 / 9,401
Clock9.6615.29
top 23.4%1,803 / 8,927
3×3 one-handed21.2724.94
top 23.9%3,066 / 15,683
Megaminx1:45.55—
top 37.9%2,721 / 7,841
Square-131.3540.48
top 51.9%3,403 / 6,743
7×75:26.745:49.45
early days — 3 solves1,750 / 3,184
6×64:43.69—
early days — 3 solves3,106 / 4,196

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

New York Championship 2022: 14.74St. Joseph's Prep 2022: 12.09Westport Summer 2022: 11.53Amherst Open 2022: 12.41Cubers Flood Watertown 2022: 10.87Empire State Fall 2022: 11.43New York Yopen 2022: 10.92West Chester Fall 2022: 11.16Troy Story 2023: 10.62GCU Spring 2023: 10.92CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 12.48CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 9.30Mystic Cubikon 2023: 9.71Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 9.41South Deerfield Side Events 2023: 11.72CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 8.92Cubes on the Bayside 2023: 9.36Hudson Valley 2023: 7.77Connecticut Winter 2024: 9.81Cubing in Mount Kisco 2024: 8.85PBs in Palisades 2024: 8.86Ridgefield Spring 2024: 8.76It's About Time Bloomsburg 2024: 9.55Kisco Cubing 2025: 9.93PBs in Palisades Spring 2025: 9.78Connecticut Championship 2025: 9.76NAC Prep in Palisades 2026: 9.177.7714.742 Jul 202220 Jun 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.

  • Evan Liu — met in 151 rounds, finished ahead 24 times
  • Ayden Dincher — met in 132 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
  • Nico Ozsvath — met in 129 rounds, finished ahead 60 times

Next targets

  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.37 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.77 away.

Targets move as he improves.