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Paul Luciw

Square-1 · top 0.68% of 25,272 all-time · competing since September 2015 · 2015LUCI02

Paul Luciw has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 5.83, set at Hurlubiks Cube Mouscron 2024, puts him in the top 0.68% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in France. Until September 2017, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 84 competitions since September 2015, he has put 5,401 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.98 in September 2015 to 7.15, a 67% improvement. Paul has entered 84 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 0.68% of 25,272 all-time
5.83
signature single · Hurlubiks Cube Mouscron 2024
5,401
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFrance
Square-15.837.95
top 0.68%4 / 540
2×21.222.55
top 1.1%44 / 3,074
Pyraminx2.204.49
top 1.5%46 / 2,148
3×37.158.78
top 1.5%105 / 4,746
4×429.0033.22
top 2.3%43 / 1,817
Skewb2.574.48
top 3.2%50 / 1,291
Megaminx46.7357.33
top 3.7%37 / 867
3×3 one-handed12.5416.66
top 3.7%66 / 1,490
Clock5.196.41
top 4.9%30 / 714
5×51:00.081:07.35
top 5.6%45 / 1,024
3×3 Fewest Moves27 moves33.67
top 8.0%41 / 367
3×3 blindfolded59.391:17.14
top 12.9%58 / 434
6×62:04.942:12.00
top 13.2%43 / 437
7×73:14.453:26.22
top 14.6%35 / 372
3×3 Multi-Blind12 of 14 cubes · 54:54—
top 17.2%30 / 165
4×4 blindfolded9:45.97—
top 56.4%42 / 71

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

Champagne Open 2015: 21.98Nancy Open 2015: 15.46Open Cube Project 2016: 11.96Champagne Open 2016: 11.75Nancy Open 2016: 12.20French Championship 2017: 10.63World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 10.78Nancy Open 2017: 10.01Croissy Open 2018: 12.03French Championship 2018: 10.70Stenay Open 2018: 10.68Champagne Open 2018: 10.01Sens Open 2019: 9.90Champagne Open 2019: 10.44Chelles Open 2020: 9.89Dontrien Open 2022: 10.18Paris Open 2022: 9.13Sézanne Open 2022: 8.70French Championship 2022: 9.01Champagne Open 2022: 9.62Swiss Nationals 2022: 8.73Slow N Spooky Open 2022: 10.09Dontrien Open 2023: 9.56Chelles Open 2023: 8.97Pllouvara Open 2023: 8.47Douvrin Open 2023: 8.53French Championship 2023: 9.08Hessen Open 2023: 9.20Pays de Bray Open 2023: 7.86Open de Lumes 2023: 10.12Sézanne Open 2023: 8.23Champagne Open 2023: 8.71Visé Saturday Open 2023: 8.98Un Petit Gesté Open 2023: 8.23Vaudesincourt Farmer Big Cubes 2023: 9.17Belgian Nationals 2023: 8.94Rhein-Neckar Autumn 2023: 8.59Hayange Open 2024: 8.99Longjum'Open 2024: 8.88Hurlubiks Cube Mouscron 2024: 8.23Chelles Open 2024: 9.07French Championship 2024: 10.02Buchy Open 2024: 8.58Douvrin Open 2024: 8.09Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 9.69Flashback Collector Metz 2024: 9.29Open the Door Moselle 2024: 8.33Hayange Open 2025: 8.24French Championship 2025: 9.36Longjum'Open 2025: 8.95Barby Cube 2025: 9.50Arnhem Open 2025: 8.70Cernay-lès-Reims 2025: 8.82Cube Plan Baie 2025: 8.44Champagne Open 2025: 9.08Visé Saturday Open 2025: 7.97Rhein-Neckar Complete Breakdown 2025: 8.33Palais'10Open 2025: 9.00Back to Buchy 2025: 8.57Harly Open 2025: 9.02Stenay Que le Début 2026: 8.92Cernay-lès-Reims Open 2026: 7.45Chelles Open 2026: 7.70Hayange Open 2026: 7.15French Championship 2026: 9.49Tigery Open 2026: 8.40Longjum'Open 2026: 7.64Gif-sûr de PR 2026: 8.21Audun-le-Tiche Open 2026: 7.34Open de Lumes 2026: 7.327.1521.9812 Sep 201515 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-5 Square-1 single — 68 people have one; it is 0.83 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.22 away.

Targets move as he improves.