People · Poland
Sebastian Pałka
3×3 · top 8.3% of 284,439 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 8.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 733rd 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 35,811 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 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Poland | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.29 | 12.05 | top 8.3% | 733 / 6,576 | |
| 2×2 | 2.56 | 4.72 | top 9.5% | 726 / 5,422 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.85 | 7.76 | top 12.3% | 768 / 4,406 | |
| 4×4 | 51.56 | 55.67 | top 26.6% | 734 / 2,851 | |
| Square-1 | 22.20 | 28.33 | top 32.9% | 339 / 1,002 | |
| Clock | 11.69 | 14.51 | top 33.5% | 590 / 1,549 | |
| Skewb | 8.98 | 14.00 | top 48.3% | 1,483 / 2,810 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 34.34 | — | top 56.1% | 1,138 / 2,176 | |
| 5×5 | 2:26.41 | — | top 64.1% | 887 / 1,442 | |
| 6×6 | 5:34.50 | — | early days — 1 solve | 587 / 669 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 24 May 2025Three personal bests in one day at Cube4fun Tylmanowa Spring 2025.
- 3 Aug 2024Three personal bests in one day at Silesian Cubing Pawłowice 2024.
- 22 Jun 2024Seven personal bests in one day at Dragon Cubing I 2024.
- 16 Dec 2023Three personal bests in one day at Cube4fun Cubers Eve Tarnowskie Góry 2023.
- 14 Oct 2023Four personal bests in one day at Beskid Cubing 2023.
- 8 Jul 2023First sub-15 3×3: 13.69 at Dragon Cubing 2023.
Competitions
- Cube4fun Tylmanowa Spring 2025 · 24 May 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Cubing Mine Rybnik III 2025 · 22 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Santa Claus Cube Race Mysłowice 2024 · 14 Dec 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubing Mine Rybnik II 2024 · 26 Oct 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Cube4fun Wisła Masters 2024 · 21 Sep 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Silesian Cubing Pawłowice 2024 · 3 Aug 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Dragon Cubing I 2024 · 22 Jun 2024 — 7 personal bests set
- Cube4fun Cubers Eve Tarnowskie Góry 2023 · 16 Dec 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Beskid Cubing 2023 · 14 Oct 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Cube4fun Wisła Masters 2023 · 23 Sep 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Silesian Cubing Pawłowice 2023 · 19 Aug 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Dragon Cubing 2023 · 8 Jul 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Korzenna Spring Open 2023 · 18 Mar 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Kęty Open 2023 · 4 Feb 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Cube4fun League IX Bielsko-Biała 2022 · 27 Aug 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Cube4fun League VII Pawłowice 2022 · 6 Aug 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Mysłowice Big Cube Open 2022 · 2 Jul 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Cube4fun League V Zawiercie 2022 · 21 May 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Cube4fun League IV Dąbrowa Górnicza 2022 · 23 Apr 2022
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.
- Tomasz Pietruszka — met in 106 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Łukasz Burliga — met in 105 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Filip Śliwa — met in 102 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.29 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.56 away.
Targets move as he improves.