People · Greece
Triantafyllos Chatzinikolaou
3×3 · top 4.8% of 288,433 all-time · competing since June 2019 · 2019CHAT05
Triantafyllos Chatzinikolaou has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.96, set at Aarhus Fall 2026, puts him in the top 4.8% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 73rd in Greece. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since June 2019, he has put 154 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 88% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.43 in June 2019 to 8.96, a 54% improvement. Triantafyllos has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Greece | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 8.96 | 10.98 | top 4.8% | 73 / 1,004 | |
| 2×2 | 2.14 | 3.72 | top 5.8% | 70 / 747 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.52 | 6.30 | top 10.3% | 67 / 528 | |
| 4×4 | 52.17 | 59.38 | top 27.5% | 97 / 395 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 22.58 | 27.84 | top 27.7% | 77 / 294 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 15 Feb 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.53 at Trikala Open 2025.
- 15 Feb 2025Six personal bests in one day at Trikala Open 2025.
- 1 Dec 2019Three personal bests in one day at Lovech Winter 2019.
- 12 Oct 2019First sub-15 3×3: 13.96 at Bački Petrovac Open 2019.
- 12 Oct 2019Three personal bests in one day at Bački Petrovac Open 2019.
- 29 Jun 2019First competition: Athens SNFestival Cubing 2019. A 19.43 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Aarhus Fall 2026 · 27 Sep 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Trikala Open 2025 · 15 Feb 2025 — 6 personal bests set
- Lovech Winter 2019 · 1 Dec 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Bački Petrovac Open 2019 · 12 Oct 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Athens SNFestival Cubing 2019 · 29 Jun 2019
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.
- Pantos Pantos — met in 13 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
- Kaloyan Galabinov — met in 13 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
- Nikolas Baxevanis — met in 13 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.96 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.14 away.
Targets move as he improves.