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Paweł Malinowski

3×3 · top 8.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2021 · 2021MALI03

Paweł Malinowski has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.35, set at Cube Factory League Rogów 2026, puts him in the top 8.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 751st in Poland. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 34 competitions since September 2021, he has put 900 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.05 in September 2021 to 10.35, a 46% improvement. He has entered 34 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.5% of 284,439 all-time
10.35
signature single · Cube Factory League Rogów 2026
900
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPoland
3×310.3511.62
top 8.5%751 / 6,576
2×22.735.34
top 11.3%850 / 5,422
Pyraminx4.778.26
top 11.8%744 / 4,406
4×440.3546.47
top 12.5%377 / 2,851
3×3 one-handed19.0026.76
top 17.8%415 / 2,176
Skewb6.0916.97
top 26.4%950 / 2,810
5×51:44.151:52.31
top 38.5%523 / 1,442
Megaminx1:48.64—
top 39.6%529 / 1,384
Clock14.6218.64
top 46.4%752 / 1,549
7×77:04.77—
early days — 2 solves441 / 546
3×3 Fewest Moves57 moves—
early days — 1 solve427 / 466
3×3 blindfolded8:44.32—
early days — 1 solve456 / 466

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

September Speedcubing Tour Warszawa 2021: 19.05Mysłowice Big Cube Open 2022: 19.10Cube4fun in Warsaw 2022: 17.23Cube4fun League XI Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2022: 16.23Elektryk Cube Race 2022: 13.89Cube Factory 2023: 11.81Żmigród Open 2023: 13.51Energy Cube Tomaszów Mazowiecki 2023: 13.64Goats of Cubing 2023: 10.49Beskid Cubing 2023: 12.65GLS Final 2023: 11.08Nowa Sól Open 2024: 11.17Energy Cube Konin 2024: 11.24Energy Cube Ciechanów 2024: 12.19Wrocław Cubing Holiday 2024: 10.59Żmigród Open 2024: 13.26Energy Cube Tomaszów Mazowiecki 2024: 11.94Polish Championship 2024: 10.90Gdańska Liga Speedcubingu Final 2024: 11.99Energy Cube Konin 2025: 11.78Cube Factory League Brzeziny Spring 2025: 10.74Żmigród Open 2025: 11.94Cube Factory League Koluszki 2025: 11.36Cube4fun in Bełchatów 2025: 13.71Polish Open 2025: 10.85Cube Factory League Final Łódź 2025: 11.19Polish Championship 2025: 11.63Cube Factory Santa Claus Race Brzeziny 2025: 11.56Scrambled Cubes Legnica 2026: 11.77Głuszyca Open 2026: 11.06Cube Factory League Rogów 2026: 10.35Cube Factory League Jeżów 2026: 11.34Cube Factory League Zgierz 2026: 10.93Cube Factory League Kalisz 2026: 11.1010.3519.1025 Sep 202113 Jun 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 0.35 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.73 away.

Targets move as he improves.