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Rafał Gawełczyk

Skewb · top 5.3% of 74,164 all-time · competing since December 2023 · 2023GAWE01

Rafał Gawełczyk has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 3.06, set at Czechowice-Dziedzice Open 2025, puts him in the top 5.3% of the 74,164 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 249th in Poland. Until February 2014, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 33 competitions since December 2023, he has put 1,395 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 92% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.31 in December 2023 to 11.66, a 60% improvement. He has entered 33 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 5.3% of 74,164 all-time
3.06
signature single · Czechowice-Dziedzice Open 2025
1,395
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 92% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPoland
Skewb3.064.09
top 5.3%249 / 2,848
Pyraminx3.495.35
top 5.4%386 / 4,456
Clock5.506.15
top 5.7%126 / 1,574
Megaminx52.591:03.73
top 6.3%118 / 1,389
2×22.404.04
top 8.0%627 / 5,487
3×311.6612.55
top 12.8%1,075 / 6,670
4×443.7053.14
top 16.7%508 / 2,894
3×3 one-handed22.2328.24
top 26.8%585 / 2,202
5×51:31.321:40.69
top 28.5%392 / 1,458
6×62:52.323:21.20
top 37.2%232 / 670
Square-126.7834.55
top 43.1%433 / 1,014
7×75:27.176:05.67
top 59.0%304 / 548

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

Cube4fun Cubers Eve Tarnowskie Góry 2023: 29.31Żory Open 2024: 23.28Chorzów Open 2024: 21.81Castle Mania Niepołomice 2024: 16.80Dragon Cubing I 2024: 16.19Frenštátský Cube Together 2024: 18.18Silesian Cubing Pawłowice 2024: 15.64Cube4fun Wisła Masters 2024: 15.54Cubing Mine Rybnik II 2024: 16.78Polish Championship 2024: 15.43Dragon Cubing II 2024: 13.52Beskidy Side Days 2024: 15.56Kopr Cube 2024: 12.95Żory Open 2025: 14.68Cubing Mine Rybnik III 2025: 14.88Silesian Cubing Mysłowice 2025: 13.03Gliwice Open 2025: 14.11Cubing Spring Rybnik 2025: 12.98Cube4fun Tylmanowa Spring 2025: 12.29Beskidy Cubing Day 2025: 13.90Czechowice-Dziedzice Open 2025: 12.81Polish Open 2025: 13.09Chorzów Cubing Days 2025: 12.68Polish Championship 2025: 12.30Dragon Cubing XI 2025: 12.64Żory Open 2026: 11.66Cubing Mine Rybnik IV 2026: 12.06Mysłowice Cubing Spring 2026: 12.09Cubing Summer Rybnik 2026: 12.0211.6629.3116 Dec 202312 Sep 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-3 Skewb single — 3,709 people have one; it is 0.06 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,783 people have one; it is 0.49 away.

Targets move as he improves.