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Patrick Bessel

3×3 · top 9.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2020 · 2020BESS01

Patrick Bessel has been competing for 6 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.66, set at c't Open Hannover 2024, puts him in the top 9.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 486th in Germany. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 42 competitions since February 2020, he has put 2,012 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.38 in February 2020 to 10.66, a 42% improvement. Patrick has entered 42 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.4% of 284,439 all-time
10.66
signature single · c't Open Hannover 2024
2,012
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGermany
3×310.6613.42
top 9.4%486 / 4,109
2×22.894.97
top 13.0%460 / 2,875
Pyraminx5.028.43
top 13.3%344 / 1,987
4×444.0950.79
top 17.2%323 / 1,934
Clock8.529.19
top 17.6%113 / 634
3×3 blindfolded1:18.982:00.78
top 19.2%66 / 343
3×3 Fewest Moves34 moves43.00
top 26.7%106 / 338
5×51:32.741:49.04
top 29.6%307 / 1,158
Megaminx1:32.521:44.80
top 29.8%214 / 787
Skewb6.7411.86
top 31.6%435 / 1,169
3×3 one-handed27.2031.79
top 39.9%524 / 1,314
Square-129.1251.04
top 47.8%243 / 533
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 3 cubes · 17:06
early days — 3 solves74 / 142
6×63:20.213:43.70
top 50.7%252 / 586
7×75:26.265:44.04
top 58.6%250 / 510
5×5 blindfolded22:16.00
early days — 1 solve30 / 47
4×4 blindfolded13:09.00
early days — 2 solves61 / 85

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

Hamburg International 2020: 18.38German Mini Open B 2021: 15.09German Mini Open B 2022: 17.26V-Cube Spiel B 2022: 13.61Darmstadt Dodecahedron Days 2022: 14.99Rahn Education Leipzig 2023: 15.77Bremium Cubing 2023: 15.76German Open 2023: 15.35Aasee Algorithms 2023: 13.57V-Cube Spiel A 2023: 13.76c't Open Hannover 2023: 12.39Kölner Kubing 2023: 13.32Central Germany 2024: 13.87German Newcomer Day 2024: 11.46Hessen Mini Open 2024: 13.44Kölner Kubing 2024: 13.51Darmstadt Dodecahedron Days 2024: 13.80c't Open Hannover 2024: 10.66Rubik's German Nationals 2024: 14.12Frankfurt Cube Days 2024: 13.61Bremium Cubing 2024: 13.19Back to Berlin 2024: 12.12German Newcomer Day 2025: 13.08Rahn Education Open 2025: 14.21Oldenburg Oster Open 2025: 12.36German Open 2025: 13.80Rheinland-Pfalz Open 2025: 14.20Berlin Summer Open 2025: 11.23Stevenage July 2025: 13.88Rubik's German Nationals 2025: 13.92c't Open Hannover 2025: 13.34Rahn Education Advent Open 2025: 11.69Schwerin Open 2026: 14.94Braunschweig Open 2026: 13.61Bremium Cubing 2026: 13.12Rahn Education Open 2026: 13.99Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 14.68Rubik's German Nationals 2026: 14.9410.6618.3829 Feb 202028 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.66 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.89 away.

Targets move as he improves.