People · Bulgaria
Nikola Pavlovski
3×3 · top 3.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2018 · 2018PAVL02
Nikola Pavlovski has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.12, set at Smolyan Open 2025, puts him in the top 3.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 16th in Bulgaria. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since February 2018, he has put 533 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.02 in February 2018 to 8.12, a 49% improvement. Nikola has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Bulgaria | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 8.12 | 10.09 | top 3.0% | 16 / 567 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 12.53 | 17.51 | top 3.7% | 4 / 139 | |
| Skewb | 3.00 | 6.63 | top 5.0% | 12 / 237 | |
| 2×2 | 2.23 | 4.16 | top 6.5% | 20 / 407 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.94 | 9.33 | top 19.5% | 62 / 332 | |
| 4×4 | 57.23 | 1:04.75 | top 33.4% | 52 / 192 | |
| 5×5 | 1:49.42 | 2:10.80 | top 42.2% | 35 / 94 | |
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 39 moves | — | early days — 1 solve | 5 / 17 | |
| Square-1 | 41.95 | 1:09.29 | top 67.8% | 29 / 43 |
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
- 16 Mar 2024Four personal bests in one day at Sofia Spring 2024.
- 31 Aug 2019First sub-10 3×3: 9.71 at Sofia Autumn 2019.
- 31 Aug 2019Five personal bests in one day at Sofia Autumn 2019.
- 17 Nov 2018First sub-15 3×3: 14.12 at Macedonia Open 2018.
- 17 Nov 2018Five personal bests in one day at Macedonia Open 2018.
- 10 Feb 2018First competition: Bulgarian Open 2018. A 22.82 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Smolyan Open 2025 · 28 Jun 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Sofia Spring 2024 · 16 Mar 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Big Cubes Sofia 2024 · 24 Feb 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Lovech Winter 2024 · 20 Jan 2024
- Tarnovo Cubing Autumn 2023 · 21 Oct 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Bulgarian Aniversary 2023 · 4 Mar 2023 — 1 personal best set
- U.R.A. Back to School 2022 · 1 Oct 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Tarnovo Open 2022 · 6 Aug 2022 — 1 personal best set
- We are Back Sofia 2022 · 9 Jul 2022
- Lovech Winter 2019 · 1 Dec 2019
- Sofia Autumn 2019 · 31 Aug 2019 — 5 personal bests set
- Big Cubes Sofia 2019 · 27 Jul 2019
- Macedonia Open 2018 · 17 Nov 2018 — 5 personal bests set
- Sofia Open 2018 · 12 May 2018
- Bulgarian Open 2018 · 10 Feb 2018 — 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.
- Todor Enikov — met in 81 rounds, finished ahead 52 times
- Nikolai Petrov — met in 80 rounds, finished ahead 65 times
- Kaloyan Galabinov — met in 79 rounds, finished ahead 29 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.12 away.
- A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 0.53 away.
Targets move as he improves.