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Sören Jaan Handschuch

3×3 · top 0.48% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2019 · 2019HAND01

Sören Jaan Handschuch has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.00, set at German Open 2025, puts him in the top 0.48% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 22nd in Germany. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since January 2019, he has put 1,387 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.50 in January 2019 to 6.00, a 56% improvement. He has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.48% of 284,439 all-time
6.00
signature single · German Open 2025
1,387
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 74% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGermany
3×36.007.49
top 0.48%22 / 4,109
Skewb1.933.54
top 1.2%13 / 1,169
2×21.281.72
top 1.3%60 / 2,875
3×3 one-handed10.7413.70
top 1.6%17 / 1,314
4×428.1231.15
top 1.8%37 / 1,934
5×551.5759.99
top 2.2%22 / 1,158
Pyraminx3.595.61
top 5.8%135 / 1,987
3×3 Fewest Moves27 moves—
top 8.0%48 / 338
6×61:55.982:06.86
top 9.5%39 / 586
Megaminx1:01.921:16.19
top 11.0%77 / 787
7×73:06.083:20.94
top 12.2%44 / 510
Square-114.0417.92
top 14.2%65 / 533
3×3 blindfolded3:32.97—
top 61.7%190 / 343

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

Berlin Winter Cubing 2019: 13.50German Open 2019: 12.13German Nationals 2019: 10.08Munich Open 2019: 9.95Berlin Winter Cubing 2020: 9.12Hamburg International 2020: 9.11German Mini Open A 2021: 7.71GamMa Spring 2022: 7.49Back to Berlin 2024: 7.07Rahn Education Open 2025: 7.52German Open 2025: 6.00Berlin Summer Open 2025: 7.01Geselliges Gewürfel Göttingen 2025: 6.86Rubik's German Nationals 2025: 6.65c't Open Hannover 2025: 6.65Cottbus Cubing 2025: 6.52Westend Mega NxNxN Berlin 2026: 6.93Rahn Education Open 2026: 6.80Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 7.32Rubik's German Nationals 2026: 6.606.0013.5019 Jan 201928 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 1.00 away.
  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.93 away.

Targets move as he improves.