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Niklas Thomßen

3×3 · top 0.74% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2021 · 2021THOM03

Niklas Thomßen has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.37, set at Rubik's German Nationals 2025, puts him in the top 0.74% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 34th in Germany. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since August 2021, he has put 1,338 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 84% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.53 in August 2021 to 6.37, a 40% improvement. Niklas has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.74% of 284,439 all-time
6.37
signature single · Rubik's German Nationals 2025
1,338
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 84% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGermany
3×36.378.70
top 0.74%34 / 4,109
Pyraminx2.655.94
top 2.6%52 / 1,987
2×21.823.35
top 3.7%164 / 2,875
3×3 one-handed14.1619.45
top 6.4%91 / 1,314
4×436.3342.96
top 8.0%154 / 1,934
3×3 blindfolded49.271:08.75
top 9.6%33 / 343
Skewb3.936.23
top 10.4%136 / 1,169
Clock7.218.22
top 11.8%65 / 634
4×4 blindfolded3:54.746:05.92
top 14.2%12 / 85
3×3 Multi-Blind10 of 11 cubes · 54:19—
top 20.3%34 / 142
5×51:28.971:42.42
top 26.4%280 / 1,158
5×5 blindfolded12:53.00—
top 32.5%16 / 47
Megaminx2:14.482:26.96
top 53.5%394 / 787

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

Welcome Back Again Jönköping 2021: 10.53Norrkubing 2021: 10.13German Mini Open B 2021: 9.51Vestkyst Cubing 2021: 9.79DSF Generalforsamlingen 2022: 9.78GamMa Spring 2022: 8.74Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 8.63Sønderjysk Sommercubing 2022: 9.51German Open 2023: 9.85Danish Championship 2023: 8.21c't Open Hannover 2023: 9.17Vilnius Winter 2024: 7.08German Open 2024: 9.13c't Open Hannover 2024: 9.11Danish Championship 2025: 8.22Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.60Rubik's German Nationals 2025: 6.37c't Open Hannover 2025: 8.25German Open 2026: 8.63Sydals Open 2026: 8.52Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 10.65Rubik's German Nationals 2026: 8.416.3710.6514 Aug 202128 Aug 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 — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.37 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.65 away.

Targets move as he improves.