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Raphael Fast

3×3 · top 0.84% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2022 · 2022FAST01

Raphael Fast has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.48, set at Winnipeg Open 2024, puts him in the top 0.84% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 81st in Canada. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since March 2022, he has put 866 official solves on the record across 15 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 18.60 in March 2022 to 6.48, a 65% improvement. Raphael has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.84% of 284,439 all-time
6.48
signature single · Winnipeg Open 2024
866
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 standingCanada
3×36.488.22
top 0.84%81 / 10,392
2×21.271.77
top 1.3%84 / 7,173
Pyraminx2.304.04
top 1.7%63 / 4,858
Skewb3.385.18
top 7.0%133 / 2,907
4×437.3845.53
top 9.1%213 / 3,118
3×3 one-handed16.0318.63
top 10.3%229 / 2,620
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves35.00
top 12.2%40 / 283
5×51:12.721:16.04
top 13.6%160 / 1,499
Megaminx1:09.911:14.20
top 15.6%131 / 1,375
Clock9.4510.87
top 22.3%196 / 1,029
6×62:31.202:46.79
top 26.2%134 / 665
Square-125.9748.41
top 41.4%359 / 952
3×3 blindfolded2:43.32—
top 47.6%171 / 351
7×74:56.585:10.69
top 49.6%210 / 503
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 14:53—
early days — 1 solve79 / 112

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

Cape Town Summer 2022: 18.60Speedcubes Cape Town 2022: 15.18Green School Paarl Open 2022: 10.93Rubik's WCA African Championship 2022: 11.13CubingZA Cape Cubes Summer 2023: 10.04CubingZA Cape Cubes Autumn 2023: 9.30CubingZA Cape Cubes Challenge 2023: 7.76Mid Summer Madness Cape Town 2024: 6.82Harvest Moon Cape Town 2024: 7.94Winnipeg Open 2024: 6.48Grand Forks 2024: 7.72Moorhead Madness 2025: 7.07Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.25Winnipeg Fall Morning 2025: 7.93Grand Forks 2025: 7.42Winnipeg Spring 2026: 7.11Carberry Open 2026: 7.696.4818.606 Mar 202225 Jul 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.48 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.27 away.

Targets move as he improves.