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Ricky Meiler

3×3 · top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2012 · 2012MEIL01

Ricky Meiler has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.95, set at MIT Fall 2018, puts him in the top 1.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 72nd in Germany. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since April 2012, he has put 1,089 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.22 in April 2012 to 6.95, a 47% improvement. Ricky has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time
6.95
signature single · MIT Fall 2018
1,089
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGermany
3×36.958.59
top 1.3%72 / 4,109
3×3 one-handed11.3114.89
top 2.2%26 / 1,314
Megaminx49.3056.89
top 4.8%28 / 787
2×22.433.91
top 8.2%323 / 2,875
5×51:11.451:17.73
top 12.7%131 / 1,158
4×442.7849.06
top 15.5%276 / 1,934
Pyraminx5.719.22
top 17.9%458 / 1,987
3×3 Fewest Moves32 moves37.33
top 20.4%94 / 338
7×74:21.104:55.94
top 38.1%149 / 510
6×63:07.933:14.58
top 44.6%224 / 586
3×3 blindfolded3:10.90—
top 55.5%167 / 343
Skewb11.4118.41
top 63.1%806 / 1,169

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

German Open 2012: 13.22Munich Open 2014: 9.71German Nationals 2015: 10.33Munich Open 2015: 9.43Franconia Winter 2015: 10.75Schwandorf Open 2016: 10.94Austrian Open 2016: 10.49European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 9.93Tübingen Open 2016: 10.65Vienna Open 2016: 9.37German Nationals 2016: 9.09Munich Open 2016: 7.56World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 10.29Munich Open 2017: 9.38WCA European Championship 2018: 8.45German Nationals 2018: 8.52MIT Fall 2018: 6.95Munich Open 2018: 8.25Awesome Bruchsal Cubing 2018: 7.59Swisscubing Cup Final 2018: 8.49Austrian Open 2019: 9.66Vorarlberg Open 2019: 7.55Athens SNFestival Cubing 2019: 9.12Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 8.99Bay Area Speedcubin' 69 2026: 7.416.9513.2214 Apr 201229 Aug 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 0.95 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 1.31 away.

Targets move as he improves.