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Adam Banfield

3×3 · top 11.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2022 · 2022BANF01

Adam Banfield has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.16, set at Newcastle Tyneside Spring 2024, puts him in the top 11.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 785th in the United Kingdom. Across 22 competitions since August 2022, he has put 697 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 2×2 best has come down from 5.53 in August 2022 to 3.30, a 40% improvement. Adam has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 11.0% of 284,439 all-time
11.16
signature single · Newcastle Tyneside Spring 2024
697
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×311.1616.13
top 11.0%785 / 6,689
Skewb4.947.87
top 17.7%420 / 2,421
2×23.304.39
top 17.8%1,030 / 4,895
Pyraminx6.4310.35
top 23.3%912 / 3,656
Clock10.5611.86
top 27.8%370 / 1,232
4×459.221:12.70
top 35.6%792 / 2,071
3×3 one-handed30.3539.97
top 47.4%841 / 1,851
Megaminx2:19.902:27.83
top 56.3%649 / 966
Square-142.231:06.66
top 68.1%553 / 778
5×52:37.832:52.70
top 69.5%865 / 1,151

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

Carlisle Summer 2022: 5.53Glasgow Winter 2023: 6.67Edinburgh Spring 2023: 5.86Bolton Spring 2023: 3.87Wakefield Spring 2023: 4.64Glasgow Spring 2023: 4.80Bolton Summer 2023: 4.76Glasgow Autumn 2023: 4.21Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 4.14Aberdeen Autumn 2023: 3.32Edinburgh Winter 2024: 4.97Glasgow Spring 2024: 3.98Stevenage May 2024: 4.33Newcastle Tyneside Spring 2024: 4.50Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 4.14Glasgow Favourites Evening I 2024: 3.90Ipswich Autumn 2024: 3.30Glasgow Favourites Evening II 2024: 4.16Kewbz Scottish Championship 2025: 3.553.306.6713 Aug 202230 May 2025

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.16 away.
  • A sub-4 Skewb single — 7,977 people have one; it is 0.94 away.

Targets move as he improves.