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Szymon Plesniak

Skewb · top 2.1% of 73,281 all-time · competing since January 2024 · 2024PLES01

Szymon Plesniak has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 2.25, set at Devon Winter 2026, puts him in the top 2.1% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 133rd in Poland. Until February 2014, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since January 2024, he has put 655 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 91% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His Skewb best has come down from 6.52 in January 2024 to 2.25, a 65% improvement. Szymon has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 2.1% of 73,281 all-time
2.25
signature single · Devon Winter 2026
655
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPoland
Skewb2.253.16
top 2.1%133 / 2,810
Pyraminx3.695.40
top 6.2%443 / 4,406
Clock6.177.75
top 7.8%172 / 1,549
2×22.694.96
top 10.8%819 / 5,422
Megaminx1:26.031:32.50
top 25.6%358 / 1,384
3×316.2620.10
top 28.6%2,160 / 6,576
3×3 one-handed41.0454.38
top 66.8%1,392 / 2,176
Square-11:19.45—
early days — 1 solve919 / 1,002

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

Bristol Winter 2024: 6.52Weston-super-Mare Spring 2024: 4.73Birmingham Summer 2024: 4.68Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 4.18Wiltshire November 2024: 4.12Weston-super-Mare Winter 2025: 2.52Coventry Spring 2025: 3.06Wiltshire Summer 2025: 3.40Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 3.00Weston-super-Mare Winter 2026: 4.04Devon Winter 2026: 2.25Wiltshire Spring 2026: 2.69Wiltshire Summer 2026: 3.05South Wales Summer 2026: 2.51Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 3.242.256.5220 Jan 202428 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, Skewb. 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.

  • Blue James — met in 113 rounds, finished ahead 17 times
  • Rufus Cripps — met in 100 rounds, finished ahead 18 times
  • Carter Swan — met in 84 rounds, finished ahead 25 times

Next targets

  • A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.25 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.69 away.

Targets move as he improves.