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Maxim Dauenhauer

3×3 · top 1.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2018 · 2018DAUE01

Maxim Dauenhauer has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.37, set at Rubik's Dutch Nationals 2025, puts him in the top 1.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 106th in Germany. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since September 2018, he has put 394 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.06 in September 2018 to 7.37, a 51% improvement. Maxim has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.8% of 284,439 all-time
7.37
signature single · Rubik's Dutch Nationals 2025
394
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGermany
3×37.379.69
top 1.8%106 / 4,109
2×21.603.32
top 2.6%122 / 2,875
4×437.0547.32
top 8.7%167 / 1,934
3×3 one-handed19.1021.53
top 18.1%248 / 1,314
5×51:25.891:42.48
top 24.0%249 / 1,158
Pyraminx6.8412.76
top 26.5%660 / 1,987

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

German Nationals 2018: 15.06Zentralschweiz 2019: 11.18Munich Open 2019: 11.12Dutch Spring 2022: 9.52Dutch Masters 2022: 10.35Dutch Autumn 2022: 10.77Kampen Open 2023: 9.56Ermelo Cubing A 2023: 9.97Capelle Cubing 2023: 8.96Dutch Open 2023: 7.97Dutch Autumn 2023: 9.07Dutch Winter South 2024: 9.55Dutch Nationals 2024: 8.85Rubik's Dutch Nationals 2025: 7.37Swift Cubing in Swabia 2026: 9.027.3715.067 Sep 201817 Apr 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 1.37 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.60 away.

Targets move as he improves.