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Nikodem Ciepłucha

3×3 · top 2.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2021 · 2021CIEP01

Nikodem Ciepłucha has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.62, set at CFL Brzeziny Spring Open 2024, puts him in the top 2.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 237th in Poland. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since September 2021, he has put 284 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 78% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.92 in May 2022 to 7.62, a 36% improvement. Nikodem has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.2% of 284,439 all-time
7.62
signature single · CFL Brzeziny Spring Open 2024
284
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 78% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPoland
3×37.629.80
top 2.2%237 / 6,576
2×22.324.20
top 7.2%568 / 5,422
Pyraminx4.927.15
top 12.7%791 / 4,406
3×3 one-handed17.8320.52
top 14.6%347 / 2,176
4×443.0548.38
top 15.8%475 / 2,851
Skewb4.988.77
top 17.9%681 / 2,810
Square-124.4053.21
top 37.8%378 / 1,002
Clock12.8123.32
top 38.8%658 / 1,549
5×51:48.02
top 41.2%556 / 1,442
6×64:03.67
early days — 1 solve429 / 669
7×76:31.65
early days — 1 solve397 / 546

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 V Zawiercie 2022: 11.92Cube4fun in Warsaw 2022: 15.55Cube4fun in Warsaw 2023: 11.90GLS II 2023: 11.30Cube Factory 2023: 10.06Goats of Cubing 2023: 11.37GLS II 2024: 8.93CFL Brzeziny Spring Open 2024: 7.62Cube4fun in Biała Rawska 2024: 9.517.6215.5521 May 202218 May 2024

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 1.62 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.32 away.

Targets move as he improves.