People · Estonia
Pelle Mandel
3×3 · top 0.92% of 288,433 all-time · competing since December 2019 · 2019MAND11
Pelle Mandel has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.57, set at PärNuti Cubing 2025, puts him in the top 0.92% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in Estonia. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since December 2019, he has put 1,477 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 76% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 39.84 in December 2019 to 6.57, an 84% improvement. Pelle has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Estonia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 6.57 | 9.03 | top 0.92% | 4 / 311 | |
| 2×2 | 1.26 | 1.86 | top 1.2% | 5 / 245 | |
| 4×4 | 29.17 | 34.51 | top 2.4% | 4 / 124 | |
| Skewb | 3.84 | 5.44 | top 9.9% | 20 / 129 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.58 | 7.26 | top 10.7% | 22 / 189 | |
| 5×5 | 1:17.69 | 1:24.84 | top 17.4% | 9 / 61 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 21.63 | 27.23 | top 25.0% | 26 / 116 | |
| Square-1 | 25.27 | 35.53 | top 39.8% | 16 / 47 | |
| 6×6 | 2:59.64 | 3:10.06 | top 41.0% | 9 / 27 | |
| Megaminx | 1:56.12 | 2:30.24 | top 43.8% | 20 / 48 | |
| Clock | 16.34 | 22.63 | top 53.1% | 29 / 49 | |
| 7×7 | 6:01.87 | — | early days — 2 solves | 11 / 20 |
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
- 25 Jul 2026Three personal bests in one day at Viljandi Open 2026.
- 28 Mar 2026Four personal bests in one day at Kopli NxN Rampage 2026.
- 17 Jun 2023Three personal bests in one day at Jāņi Kārķos 2023.
- 22 Oct 2022Four personal bests in one day at PärNuti Cubing 2022.
- 27 Aug 2022Three personal bests in one day at Estonian Open 2022.
- 11 Mar 2022Four personal bests in one day at Twist 'n Turn Tallinn 2022.
Competitions
- Nuti Estonian Championship 2026 · 3 Oct 2026
- Viljandi Open 2026 · 25 Jul 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Kopli NxN Rampage 2026 · 28 Mar 2026 — 4 personal bests set
- PärNuti Cubing 2025 · 6 Dec 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Estonian Championship 2025 · 10 Oct 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Tallinn Open 2025 · 12 Jul 2025
- Tallinn Spring 2025 · 26 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Estonian Open 2023 · 23 Sep 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Tallinn Open 2023 · 29 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Viljandi Värk 2023 · 15 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Jāņi Kārķos 2023 · 17 Jun 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- TKTK Workday Cubing I 2023 · 26 Apr 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Ehte Cube Days 2023 · 18 Mar 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Latvian Championship 2022 · 28 Oct 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- PärNuti Cubing 2022 · 22 Oct 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- TEC Open 2022 · 8 Oct 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Estonian Open 2022 · 27 Aug 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Valmiera Open 2022 · 30 Jul 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Jāņi Kārķos 2022 · 18 Jun 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Tallinn Open 2022 · 3 Jun 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Twist 'n Turn Tallinn 2022 · 11 Mar 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Tartu Open 2021 · 18 Dec 2021 — 1 personal best set
- Estonian Open 2021 · 30 Oct 2021 — 2 personal bests set
- Estonian Open 2020 · 22 Aug 2020 — 2 personal bests set
- Tartu Open 2019 · 7 Dec 2019
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.
- Remo Pihel — met in 303 rounds, finished ahead 44 times
- Oliver Pällo — met in 283 rounds, finished ahead 92 times
- Maksim Zemtšihhin — met in 267 rounds, finished ahead 72 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.57 away.
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.26 away.
Targets move as he improves.