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Sebastian Pałka

3×3 · top 8.4% of 288,433 all-time · competing since April 2022 · 2022PALK01

Sebastian Pałka has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.29, set at Cube4fun Tylmanowa Spring 2025, puts him in the top 8.4% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 744th in Poland. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since April 2022, he has put 492 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 78% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.33 in May 2022 to 10.29, a 54% improvement. Sebastian has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.4% of 288,433 all-time
10.29
signature single · Cube4fun Tylmanowa Spring 2025
492
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 78% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPoland
3×310.2912.05
top 8.4%744 / 6,670
2×22.564.72
top 9.6%735 / 5,487
Pyraminx4.857.76
top 12.3%781 / 4,456
4×451.5655.67
top 26.7%760 / 2,894
Square-122.2028.33
top 33.0%347 / 1,014
Clock11.6914.51
top 33.4%602 / 1,574
Skewb8.9814.00
top 48.4%1,513 / 2,848
3×3 one-handed34.34—
top 56.2%1,160 / 2,202
5×52:26.41—
top 64.2%898 / 1,458
6×65:34.50—
early days — 1 solve588 / 670

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 League V Zawiercie 2022: 22.33Mysłowice Big Cube Open 2022: 19.65Cube4fun League VII Pawłowice 2022: 18.15Cube4fun League IX Bielsko-Biała 2022: 19.82Kęty Open 2023: 18.77Dragon Cubing 2023: 13.69Silesian Cubing Pawłowice 2023: 18.82Cube4fun Wisła Masters 2023: 13.88Beskid Cubing 2023: 13.38Cube4fun Cubers Eve Tarnowskie Góry 2023: 18.01Dragon Cubing I 2024: 11.52Silesian Cubing Pawłowice 2024: 11.37Cube4fun Wisła Masters 2024: 10.90Cubing Mine Rybnik II 2024: 12.72Santa Claus Cube Race Mysłowice 2024: 12.71Cubing Mine Rybnik III 2025: 11.72Cube4fun Tylmanowa Spring 2025: 10.2910.2922.3321 May 202224 May 2025

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-10 3×3 single — 21,606 people have one; it is 0.29 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.56 away.

Targets move as he improves.