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Timothy Lubke

3×3 · top 2.6% of 288,433 all-time · competing since June 2022 · 2022LUBK01

Timothy Lubke has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.88, set at Queensland Open 2024, puts him in the top 2.6% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 256th in Australia. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since June 2022, he has put 792 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 65% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.37 in June 2022 to 7.88, a 41% improvement. Timothy has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.6% of 288,433 all-time
7.88
signature single · Queensland Open 2024
792
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×37.8812.03
top 2.6%256 / 11,943
2×21.654.11
top 2.9%234 / 8,727
Pyraminx3.757.37
top 6.5%285 / 6,109
3×3 one-handed16.7920.57
top 12.1%276 / 2,685
Skewb4.357.80
top 13.4%352 / 3,589
Megaminx1:19.901:38.97
top 21.8%267 / 1,313
4×447.8453.10
top 22.0%564 / 3,108
5×51:31.321:41.91
top 28.5%392 / 1,412
Square-123.4732.84
top 35.8%349 / 920
6×63:12.903:40.40
top 47.2%297 / 667
7×76:23.706:56.76
top 73.0%364 / 540
3×3 blindfolded4:44.646:17.20
top 76.9%328 / 399

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

Brisbane's 20 in 21 in 2022: 13.37Queensland Open 2022: 11.41Runaway Bay Saturday Challenge 2022: 14.31Northside Spring Saturday 2022: 13.69Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2022: 13.57Brisbane Summer 2023: 11.92Runaway Bay May Saturday 2023: 13.53Queensland Open 2023: 12.94U Cube at UQ Sunday 2023: 10.44Australian Nationals 2023: 10.85QUT Qube Challenge Sunday 2023: 12.44Brisbane Summer 2024: 11.12Cubing in Corinda Saturday 2024: 10.69Queensland Open 2024: 7.88Chilling in Toowoomba 2024: 9.93Speedy Southport 2024: 10.63Brisbane Summer 2025: 8.07Wide Bay Cubing 2025: 9.59Queensland Open 2026: 11.897.8814.3125 Jun 202227 Jun 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-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.88 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.65 away.

Targets move as he improves.