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Mika Luke Völkel

3×3 · top 1.9% of 288,433 all-time · competing since November 2019 · 2019VOLK04

Mika Luke Völkel has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.42, set at Cubing in HD 2023, puts him in the top 1.9% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 113th in Germany. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since November 2019, he has put 923 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 81% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.89 in November 2019 to 7.42, a 50% improvement. Mika has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.9% of 288,433 all-time
7.42
signature single · Cubing in HD 2023
923
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 81% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGermany
3×37.428.75
top 1.9%113 / 4,182
4×430.0635.91
top 2.9%61 / 1,966
2×22.133.60
top 5.7%242 / 2,931
Skewb3.545.74
top 8.0%101 / 1,192
5×51:10.601:16.36
top 12.1%127 / 1,175
3×3 one-handed17.1822.18
top 13.1%172 / 1,328
Clock9.0210.21
top 20.0%130 / 647
Square-117.4521.07
top 22.0%109 / 541
Megaminx1:31.431:40.02
top 29.2%211 / 798
6×62:55.643:09.27
top 38.9%190 / 595
Pyraminx10.4415.27
top 56.4%1,261 / 2,020

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

Bremium Winter 2019: 14.89Auckland Summer Open 2020: 13.03German Mini Open B 2021: 9.47Cubing in HD 2023: 7.42German Open 2023: 9.03German Nationals 2023: 8.87V-Cube Spiel A 2023: 8.51Central Germany 2024: 9.16German Newcomer Day 2024: 8.40German Open 2024: 9.11Rubik's German Nationals 2024: 9.39German Newcomer Day 2025: 9.16Rubik's German Nationals 2025: 8.19South Germany 2025: 7.48German Open 2026: 8.22Hessen Open 2026: 9.16Rubik's German Nationals 2026: 8.40WetterWürfeln Wölfersheim 2026: 8.287.4214.8930 Nov 20193 Oct 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 — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.42 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,465 people have one; it is 0.06 away.

Targets move as he improves.