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Michal Málek

3×3 · top 14.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2014 · 2014MALE02

Michal Málek has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.10, set at Slovakian Open 2017, puts him in the top 14.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 224th in the Czech Republic. Across 18 competitions since July 2014, he has put 443 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.15 in July 2014 to 12.10, a 37% improvement. Michal has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 14.2% of 284,439 all-time
12.10
signature single · Slovakian Open 2017
443
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCzech Republic
3×312.1015.26
top 14.2%224 / 787
2×23.235.83
top 17.0%191 / 644
3×3 Fewest Moves32 moves42.00
top 20.4%17 / 79
3×3 blindfolded2:11.66
top 37.2%23 / 73
Skewb8.7511.41
top 46.7%199 / 320
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 6 cubes · 52:14
top 47.1%14 / 21
3×3 one-handed30.3039.04
top 47.3%158 / 308
Pyraminx9.7317.47
top 50.9%316 / 460
Clock26.10
top 78.7%147 / 166
4×42:22.33
top 89.8%420 / 440
4×4 blindfolded41:22.00
early days — 1 solve18 / 18

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

Czech Open 2014: 19.15Prague Open 2014: 22.75Slovakian Open 2014: 19.80Czech Open 2015: 14.92Slovakian Open 2015: 16.40Prague Open 2015: 16.07Brno Open 2016: 13.20European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 13.63Czech Open 2016: 14.57Prague Open 2016: 14.41Czech Open 2017: 15.75Slovakian Open 2017: 12.10Prague Open 2017: 12.10Bratislava Mental Breakdown 2018: 14.36Czech Championship 2024: 16.93Czech Championship 2025: 12.8612.1022.7511 Jul 20145 Sep 2025

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.10 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.23 away.

Targets move as he improves.