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Nikodem Buda

3×3 · top 0.11% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2022 · 2022BUDA01

Nikodem Buda has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 4.93, set at Cube4fun Lublin Spring 2026, puts him in the top 0.11% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 17th in Poland. Until November 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since March 2022, he has put 1,020 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.93 in March 2022 to 4.93, a 65% improvement. Nikodem has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.11% of 284,439 all-time
4.93
signature single · Cube4fun Lublin Spring 2026
1,020
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 74% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPoland
3×34.936.94
top 0.11%17 / 6,576
3×3 one-handed7.5413.02
top 0.12%7 / 2,176
2×21.102.01
top 0.77%106 / 5,422
Pyraminx2.433.07
top 2.0%163 / 4,406
4×428.6435.05
top 2.1%85 / 2,851
6×61:43.031:52.54
top 4.9%44 / 669
5×559.261:02.86
top 5.1%85 / 1,442
7×72:51.603:11.22
top 8.3%54 / 546
Skewb4.946.85
top 17.7%669 / 2,810
Clock10.2911.64
top 26.6%497 / 1,549
Megaminx1:32.842:19.61
top 30.0%400 / 1,384
Square-122.9830.55
top 34.7%353 / 1,002

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

Cube4fun League III Lubartów 2022: 13.93Cube4fun in Warsaw 2022: 10.34Cube4fun League VIII Bełżyce 2022: 9.65Siedlce Open 2022: 12.74Cube4fun in Siedlce 2023: 8.46Cube4fun in Lublin 2023: 7.99Siedlce Open 2023: 8.65Cube4fun in Biała Podlaska 2023: 7.53Cube4fun in Warsaw 2024: 5.07Siedlce Open 2024: 6.46Dragon Cubing X 2025: 7.09Cube4fun Lublin Holidays 2025: 6.69Energy Cube Białołęka 2025: 6.99Cube4fun Lublin Autumn 2025: 5.59Polish Championship 2025: 5.47Cube4fun in Lublin 2025: 5.81Cube4fun Cubers Eve Żyrardów 2025: 5.95Cube4fun Lublin February 2026: 6.26Cube4fun Lublin Spring 2026: 4.93Cube4fun Double Weekend Zbuczyn 2026: 5.94Cube4fun Lublin on POLLUB 2026: 7.18Cube4fun Lublin Summer 2026: 5.87Dragon Cubing XII 2026: 6.094.9313.9326 Mar 202222 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-4 3×3 single — 38 people have one; it is 0.93 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 one-handed single — 4 people have one; it is 1.54 away.

Targets move as he improves.