People · Germany
Mika Sobek
3×3 · top 8.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2023 · 2023SOBE01
Mika Sobek has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.35, set at Beveren Sunday Open 2024, puts him in the top 8.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 439th in Germany. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since September 2023, he has put 144 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.42 in September 2023 to 10.35, a 28% improvement. Mika has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Germany | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.35 | 13.08 | top 8.5% | 439 / 4,109 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.01 | 8.91 | top 20.1% | 513 / 1,987 | |
| 2×2 | 3.63 | 4.25 | top 21.8% | 738 / 2,875 | |
| 4×4 | 57.50 | 1:14.38 | top 33.7% | 630 / 1,934 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 31.74 | 40.13 | top 50.6% | 653 / 1,314 | |
| Megaminx | 3:15.60 | — | early days — 1 solve | 592 / 787 | |
| 5×5 | 3:33.57 | — | early days — 2 solves | 997 / 1,158 |
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
- 24 Nov 2024Six personal bests in one day at Beveren Sunday Open 2024.
- 13 Jul 2024Three personal bests in one day at Warm Up Wommelgem 2024.
- 10 Sep 2023First competition: Visé Sunday Open 2023. A 16.76 3×3 single to start from.
- 10 Sep 2023First sub-15 3×3: 14.42 at Visé Sunday Open 2023.
Competitions
- Lente in Lent 2025 · 12 Apr 2025
- Beveren Sunday Open 2024 · 24 Nov 2024 — 6 personal bests set
- Warm Up Wommelgem 2024 · 13 Jul 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Arnhem Open A 2024 · 23 Mar 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Central Germany 2024 · 13 Jan 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Visé Sunday Open 2023 · 10 Sep 2023 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Christofor Gabriel Costea — met in 20 rounds, never finished ahead
- Lennert Smeets — met in 18 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
- Louis Pamukcu — met in 18 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.35 away.
- A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 0.01 away.
Targets move as he improves.