People · Sweden
Mats Kollbrink
3×3 Fewest Moves · top 8.0% of 12,294 all-time · competing since December 2007 · 2007KOLL01
Mats Kollbrink has been competing for 19 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 27 moves, set at Nordic Championship 2018, puts him in the top 8.0% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 16th in Sweden. Across 36 competitions since December 2007, he has put 391 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 21% around a typical one; 99% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:49.13 in December 2007 to 17.81, an 84% improvement. Mats has entered 36 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Sweden | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 27 moves | 31.67 | top 8.0% | 16 / 168 | |
| 3×3 | 17.81 | 24.01 | top 33.5% | 868 / 2,925 | |
| 2×2 | 5.61 | 10.01 | top 46.6% | 1,113 / 2,325 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 44.96 | 52.15 | top 71.5% | 564 / 868 | |
| Megaminx | 3:07.68 | — | early days — 2 solves | 400 / 564 | |
| 4×4 | 1:53.63 | — | top 78.7% | 756 / 1,120 | |
| 5×5 | 4:27.14 | — | early days — 2 solves | 507 / 562 | |
| Pyraminx | 24.75 | — | top 96.7% | 1,684 / 1,730 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 8:52.97 | — | early days — 2 solves | 153 / 159 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 8 Apr 2017First sub-20 3×3: 18.06 at SSL 2 Stockholm 2017.
- 8 Apr 2017Three personal bests in one day at SSL 2 Stockholm 2017.
- 5 Dec 2015Three personal bests in one day at Swedish Championship 2015.
- 24 May 2014Three personal bests in one day at Skanstull Cube 2014.
- 8 Oct 2011Three personal bests in one day at Estonian Open 2011.
- 17 Sep 2011First sub-30 3×3: 26.94 at Swedish Championship 2011.
Competitions
- Stockholmsligan Sita - Nyoka 2025 · 18 Dec 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Nordic Championship 2018 · 2 Nov 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- FMC Europe 2018 · 10 Mar 2018
- Don't Peek 2018 · 3 Feb 2018
- Anders Larsson Memorial 2017 · 17 Sep 2017
- Swedish Championship 2017 · 26 May 2017 — 1 personal best set
- Swedish Decathlon Challenge 2017 · 29 Apr 2017 — 2 personal bests set
- SSL 2 Stockholm 2017 · 8 Apr 2017 — 3 personal bests set
- FMC Europe 2017 · 1 Apr 2017 — 1 personal best set
- Flen New Year's Blind 2017 · 14 Jan 2017
- ÅF Swedish Cube Open 2016 · 15 Oct 2016
- Swedish Championship 2015 · 5 Dec 2015 — 3 personal bests set
- Norrkubing 2015 · 16 Aug 2015 — 1 personal best set
- Swedish Championship 2014 · 20 Sep 2014
- Rubik's Cube European Championships 2014 · 8 Aug 2014 — 2 personal bests set
- Skanstull Cube 2014 · 24 May 2014 — 3 personal bests set
- Swedish Cubedays 2011 · 26 Nov 2011 — 2 personal bests set
- Estonian Open 2011 · 8 Oct 2011 — 3 personal bests set
- Swedish Championship 2011 · 17 Sep 2011 — 1 personal best set
- Danish Open 2011 · 22 Apr 2011
- Helsinki Open 2011 · 22 Jan 2011
- Swedish Cubedays 2010 · 27 Nov 2010
- Estonian Open 2010 · 18 Sep 2010 — 3 personal bests set
- Swedish Open 2010 · 11 Sep 2010 — 2 personal bests set
- Karlstad Open 2010 · 15 May 2010 — 1 personal best set
- Helsinki Open 2010 · 27 Feb 2010 — 2 personal bests set
- Swedish Cube Day competition 2009 · 5 Dec 2009 — 1 personal best set
- Swedish Open 2009 · 5 Sep 2009 — 2 personal bests set
- Finnish Open 2009 · 29 Aug 2009 — 3 personal bests set
- Västerås Open 2009 · 25 Apr 2009 — 1 personal best set
- Swedish Cube Day competition 2008 · 6 Dec 2008 — 1 personal best set
- Swedish Open 2008 · 6 Sep 2008 — 1 personal best set
- Finnish Open 2008 · 19 Jul 2008 — 3 personal bests set
- Västervik Cube Meeting 2008 · 8 Mar 2008 — 1 personal best set
- Helsinki Open 2008 · 23 Feb 2008 — 1 personal best set
- Swedish Cube Day competition 2007 · 15 Dec 2007
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.
- Simon Westlund — met in 75 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Gunnar Krig — met in 69 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Anders Berggren — met in 62 rounds, finished ahead 11 times
Next targets
- A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 2.81 away.
- A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.61 away.
Targets move as he improves.