People · France
Paul Pleis
3×3 one-handed · top 0.25% of 73,695 all-time · competing since May 2019 · 2019PLEI01
Paul Pleis has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 8.24, set at Lutzelbourg Open 2026, puts him in the top 0.25% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5th in France. Until May 2015, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since May 2019, he has put 931 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 58% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.99 in May 2019 to 6.46, a 35% improvement. Paul has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | France | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 one-handed | 8.24 | 11.49 | top 0.25% | 5 / 1,490 | |
| 3×3 | 6.46 | 7.63 | top 0.82% | 61 / 4,746 | |
| 4×4 | 29.34 | 33.46 | top 2.4% | 47 / 1,817 | |
| 2×2 | 1.59 | 2.89 | top 2.6% | 111 / 3,074 | |
| Skewb | 3.23 | 6.00 | top 6.2% | 97 / 1,291 | |
| 5×5 | 1:24.00 | 1:42.83 | top 22.4% | 202 / 1,024 |
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
- 29 Jun 2024Three personal bests in one day at Rheinland-Pfalz Open 2024.
- 25 Feb 2023Three personal bests in one day at Bretzel Open 2023.
- 3 Sep 2022Three personal bests in one day at Champagne Open 2022.
- 15 Feb 2020Five personal bests in one day at Basel Open 2020.
- 21 Dec 2019Three personal bests in one day at Franconia X 2019.
- 9 Nov 2019Four personal bests in one day at Barby Cube 2019.
Competitions
- Lutzelbourg Open 2026 · 30 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Strossburi Open 2025 · 18 Oct 2025
- Norwegian Championship 2024 · 9 Aug 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Rheinland-Pfalz Open 2024 · 29 Jun 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Douvrin Open 2024 · 22 Jun 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- French Championship 2024 · 30 Mar 2024
- Bretzel Open 2023 · 25 Feb 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Muggiò Minx Open 2022 · 29 Oct 2022
- Champagne Open 2022 · 3 Sep 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Swisscubing Cup I 2022 · 19 Mar 2022
- Dontrien Open 2022 · 5 Feb 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Rhein-Neckar Open A 2021 · 16 Oct 2021 — 1 personal best set
- Swisscubing Cup IV 2020 · 22 Aug 2020 — 1 personal best set
- Basel Open 2020 · 15 Feb 2020 — 5 personal bests set
- Franconia X 2019 · 21 Dec 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Barby Cube 2019 · 9 Nov 2019 — 4 personal bests set
- Paris Open 2019 · 19 Oct 2019 — 4 personal bests set
- Champagne Open 2019 · 7 Sep 2019 — 5 personal bests set
- Rhein-Neckar Open 2019 · 22 Jun 2019 — 5 personal bests set
- Elsass Open 2019 · 18 May 2019 — 2 personal bests 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.
- Valentin Hoffmann — met in 87 rounds, finished ahead 45 times
- Abdelhak Kaddour — met in 82 rounds, finished ahead 43 times
- Juliette Sébastien — met in 81 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 0.24 away.
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.46 away.
Targets move as he improves.