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Nikiforos Stamkopoulos

3×3 · top 4.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022STAM04

Nikiforos Stamkopoulos has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.63, set at Thessaloniki Summer Open 2026, puts him in the top 4.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 62nd in Greece. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since October 2022, he has put 386 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 72% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.44 in October 2022 to 8.63, a 44% improvement. Nikiforos has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.0% of 284,439 all-time
8.63
signature single · Thessaloniki Summer Open 2026
386
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGreece
3×38.6310.51
top 4.0%62 / 982
2×21.892.77
top 4.1%52 / 733
Pyraminx3.486.31
top 5.4%28 / 524
Skewb4.827.57
top 16.8%43 / 268
4×447.5957.17
top 21.6%83 / 384
Clock11.5614.08
top 32.9%64 / 180
3×3 one-handed26.3729.84
top 37.8%102 / 288

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

Greek Open 2022: 15.44Larissa Spring Open 2023: 10.73Voula Summer Open 2023: 9.04Salonica Autumn Open 2023: 10.79Katerini Beach Open 2024: 10.90Salonica Open 2024: 9.81Double Triple Athens B 2025: 8.77Thessaloniki Open 2025: 10.33Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 9.47Thessaloniki Summer Open 2026: 8.638.6315.4415 Oct 202225 Jul 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.63 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.89 away.

Targets move as he improves.