Euros 2026 Predictions: Where the Community Agrees and Disagrees

The community has made its picks. Now Euros gets to prove them right or wrong.

The Euros 2026 Podium Prediction Challenge is closed, and the community has spoken.

These are not results, nor are they our official picks. They are a snapshot of how the community sees each event heading into Euros.

The prediction board reflects the entries as submitted. Timofei Tarasenko appears prominently across several events, but he has missed Day 1, and his status for the remaining days is unknown.

To make the trends easier to follow, we used the same consensus score as our NAC challenge:

• First-place pick = 3 points

• Second-place pick = 2 points

• Third-place pick = 1 point

That gives us a better picture than only looking at first-place votes. Some competitors may not have the most win picks, but still appear consistently across podium ballots.

The Biggest Locks

The clearest lock at Euros is Tymon Kolasiński in 5x5.

Tymon received 97% of the first-place picks. The other 3% placed him second, meaning every single ballot had Tymon on the 5x5 podium.

That dominance extends across the rest of the standard cube events.

Tymon leads the community consensus in 3x3, 4x4, 5x5, 6x6, and 7x7. He appeared on every podium ballot in 4x4, 5x5, and 6x6, and missed only one ballot in 7x7.

Stanley Chapel is the other major lock.

Stanley received 91% of the first-place picks in both 4BLD and 5BLD. Simon Praschl and Ryan Eckersley received strong podium support, but very few respondents expect either to take the title away from Stanley.

Timofei Tarasenko received overwhelming support in Megaminx, with 88% of the first-place picks.

Rasmus Stub Detlefsen rounds out the strongest favorites, taking 83% of the Square-1 win predictions.

The Closest Races

The closest first-place race is 3x3 One-Handed.

Nicholas Archer and Luke Garrett each received 42% of the first-place picks, making One-Handed a true toss-up between them. Nicholas leads the overall consensus score because he appeared on more podium ballots, but almost nothing separates them in the race for gold.

Dhruva Sai Meruva is the clear third name, while Eden Robinson-Rechavi and Andrey Che round out a deeper group of podium contenders.

3BLD also looks wide open compared to the other blindfolded events.

Charles Daloz-Baltenberger leads with 47% of the first-place picks, but Jens Haber is close behind in both gold votes and total consensus score. Stanley Chapel and Simon Praschl also received significant podium support.

Pyraminx has another divided field.

Aratz Larruzea leads with 53% of the first-place picks, followed by Alexey Tsvetkov and Daniel Partridge. Jonathan Plug also received 15 gold predictions, giving the event four competitors with meaningful first-place support.

FMC is similarly difficult to predict. Radomił Baran leads comfortably, but only received 57% of the win picks. Adam Marcellus Kelly and Adrien Neveu are nearly tied for second in the consensus standings.

Event-by-Event Prediction Board

3x3 Cube

Community Favorite: Tymon Kolasiński, 86% first-place

Top Five

1. Tymon Kolasiński

2. Teodor Zajder

3. Luke Garrett

4. Timofei Tarasenko

5. Olaf Kuźmiński

2x2 Cube

Community Favorite: Teodor Zajder, 72% first-place

Top Five

1. Teodor Zajder

2. Antonie Paterakis

3. Emanuel Schelin

4. Tymon Kolasiński

5. Max Tully

4x4 Cube

Community Favorite: Tymon Kolasiński, 88% first-place

Top Five

1. Tymon Kolasiński

2. Sebastian Weyer

3. Timofei Tarasenko

4. Ciarán Beahan

5. Twan Dullemond

5x5 Cube

Community Favorite: Tymon Kolasiński, 97% first-place

Top Five

1. Tymon Kolasiński

2. Timofei Tarasenko

3. Ciarán Beahan

4. Sebastian Weyer

5. Patrick Ponce

6x6 Cube

Community Favorite: Tymon Kolasiński, 68% first-place

Top Five

1. Tymon Kolasiński

2. Timofei Tarasenko

3. Ciarán Beahan

4. Daniel Rush

5. Mark Zimmermann

7x7 Cube

Community Favorite: Tymon Kolasiński, 73% first-place

Top Five

1. Tymon Kolasiński

2. Timofei Tarasenko

3. Ciarán Beahan

4. Mark Zimmermann

5. Kate Grahame

3BLD

Community Favorite: Charles Daloz-Baltenberger, 47% first-place

Top Five

1. Charles Daloz-Baltenberger

2. Jens Haber

3. Stanley Chapel

4. Simon Praschl

5. Ben Baron

FMC

Community Favorite: Radomił Baran, 57% first-place

Top Five

1. Radomił Baran

2. Adam Marcellus Kelly

3. Adrien Neveu

4. Louis-Marie Ratto

5. Moritz Lotz

3x3 One-Handed

Community Favorites: Nicholas Archer and Luke Garrett, 42% first-place each

Top Five

1. Nicholas Archer

2. Luke Garrett

3. Dhruva Sai Meruva

4. Eden Robinson-Rechavi

5. Andrey Che

Clock

Community Favorite: Antoni Stojek, 62% first-place

Top Five

1. Antoni Stojek

2. Eryk Kasperek

3. Caleb Wolf Dunn

4. Danny Morgan

5. Mick Boekema

Megaminx

Community Favorite: Timofei Tarasenko, 88% first-place

Top Five

1. Timofei Tarasenko

2. Stephanie Rose Martin

3. Aidan Grainger

4. Sean Moran

5. Alessandro Calzoni

Pyraminx

Community Favorite: Aratz Larruzea, 53% first-place

Top Five

1. Aratz Larruzea

2. Alexey Tsvetkov

3. Daniel Partridge

4. Jonathan Plug

5. Matouš Keder

Skewb

Community Favorite: Ignacy Samselski, 68% first-place

Top Five

1. Ignacy Samselski

2. Oskar Hanuszkiewicz

3. Vojtěch Grohmann

4. Alex Rosado Saez de Langarica

5. Ariel Benchetrit

Square-1

Community Favorite: Rasmus Stub Detlefsen, 83% first-place

Top Five

1. Rasmus Stub Detlefsen

2. Michał Krasowski

3. Isaac Corker

4. Maksym Wingert

5. Szymon Ciepiela

4BLD

Community Favorite: Stanley Chapel, 91% first-place

Top Five

1. Stanley Chapel

2. Simon Praschl

3. Ryan Eckersley

4. Daniel Wallin

5. Ezra Hirschi

5BLD

Community Favorite: Stanley Chapel, 91% first-place

Top Five

1. Stanley Chapel

2. Ryan Eckersley

3. Ezra Hirschi

4. Simon Praschl

5. Daniel Wallin

MBLD

Community Favorite: Krzysztof Bober, 64% first-place

Top Five

1. Krzysztof Bober

2. Ezra Hirschi

3. Simon Praschl

4. Stanley Chapel

5. Kamil Przybylski

What Stands Out Most

The community is extremely confident in a few competitors:

• Tymon Kolasiński throughout the standard cube events.

• Stanley Chapel in 4BLD and 5BLD.

• Timofei Tarasenko in Megaminx.

• Rasmus Stub Detlefsen in Square-1.

• Teodor Zajder in 2x2.

Tymon is the biggest story on the board. He leads five events and is also ranked fourth in the 2x2 consensus. The community is not simply expecting him to have a strong weekend. It is expecting him to collect titles across nearly every cube size.

With Timofei Tarasenko possibly no longer attending, the big cube podium picture becomes much less predictable. Ciarán Beahan remains one of the community’s most consistent picks across 5x5, 6x6, and 7x7.

The blindfolded events tell two different stories.

Stanley is the overwhelming favorite in 4BLD and 5BLD, but 3BLD is much less certain. Charles Daloz-Baltenberger leads, Jens Haber is firmly in contention, and Stanley remains a major podium threat.

Then there are the true toss-ups.

Nicholas Archer and Luke Garrett received identical first-place support in One-Handed. Pyraminx has four competitors receiving serious win support. FMC has a clear favorite, but very little agreement behind him.

That is what makes these prediction challenges fun.

Some events appear decided before the first solve. Others could completely reshape the leaderboard with one unexpected podium.

The picks are in.

Now Euros gets to show us how much the community actually knew.