Leaderboard rules

Version 1 · Last updated: 1 November 2026

Who these rules are for

These rules apply to everyone who joins the Kubelo leaderboard. When you join, you confirm that you are 13 or older and that you accept them. Joining is optional, and you can leave at any time. Kubelo is made by Tore Meling (Norway), who runs the leaderboard.

Your name

Your name is shown to everyone who opens the leaderboard, so it has to be fine for everyone, including children.

• What works: 3 to 16 characters: letters from the Latin alphabet (æ, ø, å and accents are fine), numbers, spaces, - _ and a full stop. A name can be made up. It does not need to be your real name.
• What does not:
  • names that are hateful, bullying, sexual, violent or threatening, or that make fun of a person or a group
  • names that pretend to be someone else, such as another player, a well-known person, or Kubelo itself
  • names with personal information, like a full real name of someone else, a phone number or an address
  • names that advertise something, or that are links
  • names that look like another player's name, made with look-alike letters, numbers or symbols
• The app checks names automatically when you pick one. If a name is not accepted, the app only says "Please choose another name." so the check cannot be used to find out which words are on it.
• You can change your name once every 7 days. If we hide your name, you can choose a new one straight away.

Fair play

Only ranked solves in Play, on the 3×3 on the screen, are on the leaderboard. A ranked solve starts from a cube made by the Kubelo server. You get 15 seconds to look at it, and Help and Undo are off.

• Do: solve the cube yourself, with your own hands, on your own phone.
• Do not:
  • use a solver, a script, a bot, or a modified or unofficial version of the app
  • send times or moves to the server in any way other than the app does
  • let someone else solve for you, or look up the solution while you solve
  • post another person's solve as your own
  • use more than one name to fill the list, or to make a name look better than it is
• Every posted solve is replayed and checked by our server. Once it is on a list, everyone can watch its replay.
• Some times wait until a person has watched the replay: times that look impossible for a person, times that would reach the top three of all time, and all times under 15 seconds on the all-time list.
• The leaderboard gives honour and nothing else. There are no prizes and no money.

Reports and blocking

• Report is on every place on the list. You pick one of three reasons: a rude or hurtful name, a time that looks impossible, or something else that breaks these rules. There is no free text.
• Block hides a player's name on your phone. Their time stays on the list. Blocking is private: they are not told, and nothing is sent to the server.
• A name is hidden automatically when three different players who have a time on the list have reported it. A time is never hidden automatically, so nobody can remove another player's place by reporting it.
• We look at reports and aim to answer within 48 hours.

What we can do

If a name or a solve breaks these rules, we can:

• hide the name, so it shows as "Player" with a number, and ask you to choose a new one
• hide or remove a time
• stop a player from posting to the leaderboard

We keep a short log of what was done. If you think we got it wrong, write to us (see Contact), and we will look again.

Your data

The leaderboard keeps your name, your times and the moves of the solves you post. Everything we keep, why, for how long, and how to delete it is in the privacy policy. You can leave at any time with Leave the leaderboard in the app. If you cannot open the app, see how to delete your leaderboard data.

Changes

If we change these rules, the version and the date at the top change, and the app asks you to accept the new version before you post again.

Contact

Write to kontakt@kubelo.app. We aim to answer reports within 48 hours, and we reply to everything else within one month. You can also write to us in the app: open Menu, then Settings → About Kubelo → Write to us.

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