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Tomasz Żołnowski

3×3 · top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2005 · 2005ZOLN01

Tomasz Żołnowski has been competing for 21 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.02, set at WLS Lato 2016, puts him in the top 1.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 146th in Poland. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 121 competitions since September 2005, he has put 4,677 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 84% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.67 in September 2005 to 7.02, a 60% improvement. Tomasz has entered 121 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time
7.02
signature single · WLS Lato 2016
4,677
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 84% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPoland
3×37.028.92
top 1.3%146 / 6,576
4×433.2040.71
top 5.1%170 / 2,851
3×3 Fewest Moves27 moves31.33
top 8.0%47 / 466
Pyraminx4.569.89
top 10.6%680 / 4,406
3×3 one-handed17.3621.76
top 13.5%325 / 2,176
2×22.974.40
top 13.9%1,018 / 5,422
5×51:18.211:22.33
top 17.7%258 / 1,442
Megaminx1:38.991:50.67
top 34.0%447 / 1,384
3×3 blindfolded2:29.453:04.59
top 43.0%204 / 466
4×4 blindfolded22:41.00—
early days — 2 solves82 / 93
3×3 Multi-Blind1 of 2 cubes · 17:58—
early days — 1 solve191 / 203

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

Polish Open 2005: 17.67Polish Open 2006: 13.42Polish Open 2007: 12.13World Rubik's Cube Championship 2007: 14.30Gdansk Open 2008: 10.36WSTIH Open 2008: 9.91Pabianice Open 2008: 10.21Polish Open 2008: 9.21Wroclaw Open 2008: 10.41Marina Gdansk Open 2008: 10.78European Championship 2008: 10.44Poznan Open 2008: 10.41Polish Nationals 2009: 10.21Warsaw Open 2009: 9.43Lublin Open 2009: 9.56Poznan Open 2009: 10.41Kociewie Open 2009: 9.55Czech Open 2009: 8.75Gdansk Open 2009: 9.34Wroclaw Open 2009: 9.36Polish Open 2009: 8.68World Rubik's Cube Championship 2009: 9.40Fuglsangpark Open 2009: 7.91Silesia Open 2009: 10.28Polish Open 2010: 9.68Grudziadz Open 2010: 9.47Bialystok Open 2010: 8.003Mola Open 2010: 9.38Poznan Open 2010: 9.66Czech Open 2010: 9.16Austrian Open 2010: 8.46Kociewie Open 2010: 8.31East German Open 2010: 8.81Oslo Open 2010: 8.55Polish Nationals 2010: 8.06Pabianice Open 2010: 8.53European Rubik's Cube Championship 2010: 9.18Rzeszow Open 2010: 10.13Lodz Open 2011: 9.25Grudziadz Open 2011: 8.47Bialystok Open 2011: 8.903Mola Open 2011: 9.16Swierklany Open 2011: 9.52Polish Nationals 2011: 9.44Poznan Open 2011: 8.02Cube Factory 2011: 9.75Kociewie Open 2011: 10.15Cubing Spring Grudziadz 2012: 9.21Polish Open 2012: 9.77Silesia Open 2012: 9.69Polish Nationals 2012: 10.06European Rubik's Cube Championship 2012: 9.05Warszawa Open 2012: 8.38Jura Open 2012: 9.61Rybnik Open 2013: 8.90Rumia Open 2013: 9.71Polish Open 2013: 9.56Kraków Open 2013: 9.36Polish Nationals 2013: 9.47GLS Summer 2013: 9.74Chojnice Open 2013: 9.37Grudziadz Open 2013: 8.75SLS Jastrzebie 2013: 8.75Cube Factory 2013: 8.93SLS Zaglebie 2013: 8.52GLS Autumn Reda 2013: 8.77SLS Swierklany 2013: 8.21SLS Czestochowa 2013: 9.30Radom Open 2013: 9.11Cubers Eve 2013: 8.61Warsaw Open 2014: 8.82SLS Bielsko-Biala 2014: 8.99Polish Open 2014: 9.68SLS Gliwice 2014: 8.48SLS Rybnik 2014: 8.46Mielec Cube Day 2014: 9.31Rumia Open 2014: 9.06SLS Tarnowskie Gory 2014: 8.70SLS Chorzow 2014: 8.98Aleksandrus Cube 2014: 9.19Polish Nationals 2014: 9.36Poznan Open 2014: 9.71PLS Sopot 2014: 8.73Masterpress Summer 2014: 9.55Chojnice Open 2014: 8.07Kielce Cube Attack 2014: 8.72Kaliska Open 2014: 9.63PLS Marina 2014: 8.50Art Rubik 2014: 8.06Człuchów Panzer Cube 2014: 8.27Santa Claus Cube Race 2014: 9.33Cubers Eve 2014: 9.47Riviera Cube Week 2015: 8.57Świdnik Open 2015: 8.28ŚLS Gliwice 2015: 8.63Grudziadz Open 2015: 7.94Polish Open 2015: 8.93Gdańsk Open 2015: 8.45Radomsko Cube Theory 2015: 8.23Kaliska Open 2015: 8.79Warsaw Cube Masters 2015: 7.36Masovian Open 2015: 9.34Polish Championship 2015: 7.75Gdańsk Rubik's Cube Day 2015: 8.28Kaskada Open 2016: 8.92WLS Wiosna 2016: 9.30Mielec Cube Day 2016: 9.32WLS Lato 2016: 7.02European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 8.66II Masovian Open Płock 2016: 9.33Cube N' Meme 2016: 7.89GLS Cup V 2016: 9.49GLS Cup Final 2016: 9.21Polish Championship 2016: 9.08Santa Claus Cube Race 2016: 8.35Staszic Open 2017: 9.30GLS Cup II 2018: 8.50Polish Championship 2018: 8.55Polish Open 2025: 8.837.0217.6718 Sep 20055 Sep 2025

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 — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.02 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 3.20 away.

Targets move as he improves.