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Tomasz Płachecki

3×3 · top 6.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2021 · 2021PLAC01

Tomasz Płachecki has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.51, set at Cube4fun Warsaw Saturday 2025, puts him in the top 6.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 575th in Poland. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since July 2021, he has put 156 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 94% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 34.47 in July 2021 to 9.51, a 72% improvement. Tomasz has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.1% of 284,439 all-time
9.51
signature single · Cube4fun Warsaw Saturday 2025
156
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 94% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPoland
3×39.5111.30
top 6.1%575 / 6,576
2×22.923.32
top 13.3%979 / 5,422
Pyraminx6.017.87
top 20.1%1,149 / 4,406
4×459.051:03.20
top 35.5%934 / 2,851
5×51:47.69
early days — 2 solves553 / 1,442
3×3 one-handed31.00
early days — 2 solves976 / 2,176
Square-130.12
early days — 2 solves467 / 1,002
Clock16.04
early days — 3 solves845 / 1,549
Skewb13.3419.23
top 72.2%2,081 / 2,810

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

Lubelska Liga Speedcubingu III Zamość 2021: 34.47September Speedcubing Tour Warszawa 2021: 31.35Cube4fun in Warsaw 2022: 17.68Cube4fun Double Weekend Warsaw 2023: 11.78Cube4fun in Warsaw 2024: 11.41Cube4fun Warsaw Saturday 2025: 9.51Dragon Cubing XII 2026: 10.189.5134.4724 Jul 202122 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.51 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.92 away.

Targets move as he improves.