People · Germany
Patrick Bessel
3×3 · top 9.5% of 288,433 all-time · competing since February 2020 · 2020BESS01
Patrick Bessel has been competing for 7 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 9.5% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 492nd in Germany. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 44 competitions since February 2020, he has put 2,113 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 62% of the 36,406 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 44 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Germany | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.66 | 13.42 | top 9.5% | 492 / 4,182 | |
| 2×2 | 2.89 | 4.97 | top 13.1% | 467 / 2,931 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.02 | 8.43 | top 13.3% | 349 / 2,020 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 1:09.90 | 1:50.25 | top 16.1% | 57 / 350 | |
| 4×4 | 44.09 | 50.79 | top 17.2% | 329 / 1,966 | |
| Clock | 8.52 | 9.19 | top 17.5% | 113 / 647 | |
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 34 moves | 43.00 | top 26.9% | 108 / 343 | |
| 5×5 | 1:32.74 | 1:49.04 | top 29.7% | 313 / 1,175 | |
| Megaminx | 1:32.52 | 1:44.80 | top 29.9% | 217 / 798 | |
| Skewb | 6.74 | 11.86 | top 31.7% | 443 / 1,192 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 27.20 | 31.79 | top 40.0% | 527 / 1,328 | |
| Square-1 | 29.12 | 51.04 | top 47.8% | 245 / 541 | |
| 6×6 | 3:20.21 | 3:43.70 | top 50.7% | 257 / 595 | |
| 3×3 Multi-Blind | 3 of 3 cubes · 17:06 | — | early days — 3 solves | 76 / 144 | |
| 7×7 | 5:18.88 | 5:38.99 | top 56.6% | 242 / 521 | |
| 4×4 blindfolded | 10:04.00 | — | early days — 3 solves | 51 / 89 | |
| 5×5 blindfolded | 22:16.00 | — | early days — 1 solve | 30 / 48 |
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
- 11 Apr 2025Three personal bests in one day at Oldenburg Oster Open 2025.
- 15 Mar 2025Three personal bests in one day at Rahn Education Open 2025.
- 2 Nov 2024Four personal bests in one day at Bremium Cubing 2024.
- 24 May 2024Four personal bests in one day at Kölner Kubing 2024.
- 13 Jan 2024Six personal bests in one day at Central Germany 2024.
- 11 Nov 2023Six personal bests in one day at Kölner Kubing 2023.
Competitions
- c't Open Hannover 2026 · 17 Oct 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Bremium Mega Day 2026 · 5 Sep 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's German Nationals 2026 · 28 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026 · 16 Jul 2026
- Hannover Mental Breakdown 2026 · 27 Jun 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Rahn Education Open 2026 · 1 May 2026
- German Open 2026 · 18 Apr 2026
- Bremium Cubing 2026 · 20 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Braunschweig Open 2026 · 14 Mar 2026
- Schwerin Open 2026 · 21 Feb 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Rahn Education Advent Open 2025 · 29 Nov 2025
- c't Open Hannover 2025 · 1 Nov 2025
- U-Cube Gronau Silent 2025 · 4 Oct 2025
- Rubik's German Nationals 2025 · 26 Sep 2025
- Stevenage July 2025 · 19 Jul 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Berlin Summer Open 2025 · 14 Jun 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Rheinland-Pfalz Open 2025 · 30 May 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- German Open 2025 · 10 May 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Oldenburg Oster Open 2025 · 11 Apr 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Rahn Education Open 2025 · 15 Mar 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- German Newcomer Day 2025 · 1 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Back to Berlin 2024 · 9 Nov 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Bremium Cubing 2024 · 2 Nov 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Frankfurt Cube Days 2024 · 26 Oct 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Rubik's German Nationals 2024 · 4 Oct 2024
- c't Open Hannover 2024 · 13 Sep 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Darmstadt Dodecahedron Days 2024 · 20 Jul 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Kölner Kubing 2024 · 24 May 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Hessen Mini Open 2024 · 10 May 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- German Newcomer Day 2024 · 9 Mar 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Central Germany 2024 · 13 Jan 2024 — 6 personal bests set
- Kölner Kubing 2023 · 11 Nov 2023 — 6 personal bests set
- c't Open Hannover 2023 · 14 Oct 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- V-Cube Spiel A 2023 · 7 Oct 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Aasee Algorithms 2023 · 3 Jun 2023 — 5 personal bests set
- German Open 2023 · 29 Apr 2023 — 9 personal bests set
- Bremium Cubing 2023 · 7 Apr 2023 — 6 personal bests set
- Rahn Education Leipzig 2023 · 1 Apr 2023 — 9 personal bests set
- Darmstadt Dodecahedron Days 2022 · 22 Oct 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- V-Cube Spiel B 2022 · 8 Oct 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- German Mini Open B 2022 · 1 May 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- German Side Events 2021 · 20 Nov 2021
- German Mini Open B 2021 · 7 Nov 2021 — 5 personal bests set
- Hamburg International 2020 · 29 Feb 2020 — 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.
- Henri Gerber — met in 370 rounds, finished ahead once
- Noah Kraft — met in 319 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Ricardo Olea Catalán — met in 261 rounds, finished ahead 28 times
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,606 people have one; it is 0.66 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.89 away.
Targets move as he improves.