People · Serbia
Pavle Kovačević
2×2 · top 7.6% of 186,767 all-time · competing since March 2025 · 2025KOVA01
Pavle Kovačević has been competing for a year. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.36, set at Kragujevac Open 2025, puts him in the top 7.6% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 33rd in Serbia. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since March 2025, he has put 118 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 91% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.19 in March 2025 to 11.86, a 35% improvement. Pavle has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Serbia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 2.36 | 7.18 | top 7.6% | 33 / 332 | |
| 3×3 | 11.86 | 17.84 | top 13.4% | 62 / 410 | |
| Skewb | 7.20 | 15.25 | top 35.2% | 55 / 145 | |
| Pyraminx | 8.57 | 12.31 | top 41.1% | 118 / 240 | |
| Clock | 26.37 | — | early days — 3 solves | 32 / 37 | |
| 4×4 | 2:09.99 | — | early days — 1 solve | 152 / 173 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 1:08.92 | — | early days — 2 solves | 121 / 136 |
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
- 18 Oct 2025Four personal bests in one day at Battle for Belgrade II 2025.
- 28 Jun 2025First sub-15 3×3: 14.31 at Serbian Championship 2025.
- 23 Mar 2025First competition: Irig Newcomer Day 2025. A 18.19 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Battle for Belgrade 2026 · 24 Jan 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Kragujevac Open 2025 · 22 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Battle for Belgrade II 2025 · 18 Oct 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Serbian Championship 2025 · 28 Jun 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Irig Newcomer Day 2025 · 23 Mar 2025
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.
- Aleksa Dimitrijević — met in 29 rounds, never finished ahead
- Liam Zidar — met in 29 rounds, never finished ahead
- Nikola Aćimović — met in 28 rounds, finished ahead twice
Next targets
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.36 away.
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.86 away.
Targets move as he improves.