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Michał Nikiel

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 1.5% of 12,294 all-time · competing since September 2011 · 2011NIKI01

Michał Nikiel has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 21 moves, set at Polish Championship 2025, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13th in Poland. Across 27 competitions since September 2011, he has put 337 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.68 in September 2011 to 9.55, a 60% improvement. He has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 1.5% of 12,294 all-time
21 moves
signature single · Polish Championship 2025
337
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPoland
3×3 Fewest Moves21 moves26.33
top 1.5%13 / 466
3×39.5513.17
top 6.2%580 / 6,576
2×22.644.35
top 10.3%780 / 5,422
Pyraminx7.8813.69
top 35.2%1,847 / 4,406
3×3 one-handed27.8029.85
top 41.4%836 / 2,176
4×41:26.461:35.19
top 61.0%1,618 / 2,851
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 18:38—
early days — 3 solves150 / 203
Skewb20.7424.08
top 90.7%2,570 / 2,810

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

Poznan Open 2011: 23.68Cube Factory 2011: 17.44Silesia Open 2012: 17.77European Rubik's Cube Championship 2012: 13.50Santa Claus Cube Race 2014: 12.28ŚLS Gliwice 2015: 12.85SLS Rybnik 2015: 10.81Berlin Summer Cube Day 2015: 11.52Santa Claus Cube Race 2015: 12.08WLS Lato 2016: 13.40Santa Claus Cube Race 2016: 12.01UPP Poznań Cubing 2022: 11.67Please Be Qualified Ireland 2024: 9.559.5523.6824 Sep 201118 May 2024

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 1.55 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.64 away.

Targets move as he improves.