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Romane Nowicki

3×3 · top 5.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2019 · 2019NOWI01

Romane Nowicki has been competing for 7 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.28, set at Metz Open 2022, puts her in the top 5.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 304th in France. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since April 2019, she has put 150 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 15.11 in April 2019 to 9.28, a 39% improvement. Romane has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.5% of 284,439 all-time
9.28
signature single · Metz Open 2022
150
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFrance
3×39.2811.16
top 5.5%304 / 4,746
4×439.0943.21
top 11.1%214 / 1,817
2×23.245.10
top 17.1%607 / 3,074
Megaminx1:21.221:33.13
top 22.6%179 / 867
5×51:25.621:32.19
top 23.8%214 / 1,024
Skewb5.8912.04
top 24.9%360 / 1,291
6×62:58.473:06.74
early days — 3 solves144 / 437
7×75:35.84
early days — 1 solve191 / 372
Pyraminx12.3814.39
top 69.5%1,548 / 2,148

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

Open de Lumes 2019: 15.11Elsass Open 2019: 14.84Metz Open 2022: 9.28Hayange Open 2026: 9.62Open de Lumes 2026: 9.699.2815.116 Apr 201915 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.28 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 9.09 away.

Targets move as she improves.