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Aidan Grainger

3×3 · top 0.0081% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2018 · 2018GRAI01

Aidan Grainger has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 3.69, set at Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2024, puts him in the top 0.0081% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in the United Kingdom. Until November 2018, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 70 competitions since October 2018, he has put 5,136 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.37 in October 2018 to 3.69, an 87% improvement. Aidan has entered 70 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.0081% of 284,439 all-time
3.69
signature single · Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2024
5,136
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×33.697.13
top 0.0081%1 / 6,689
Megaminx22.8926.60
top 0.011%1 / 966
Clock2.563.40
top 0.29%8 / 1,232
2×20.942.14
top 0.45%41 / 4,895
4×425.3028.67
top 0.77%26 / 2,071
5×546.1352.30
top 0.87%15 / 1,151
Skewb1.884.26
top 1.1%27 / 2,421
7×72:10.572:22.81
top 1.3%5 / 459
Square-16.849.25
top 1.5%16 / 778
6×61:28.821:35.18
top 1.7%9 / 548
3×3 one-handed10.9814.46
top 1.8%33 / 1,851
Pyraminx2.603.76
top 2.5%93 / 3,656
3×3 Fewest Moves30 moves35.33
top 14.8%67 / 372
3×3 blindfolded1:31.19—
top 23.5%105 / 311

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

UK Championship 2018: 29.37Weston-super-Mare Open 2018: 21.72Fontwell Open 2019: 17.16Welsh Open 2019: 15.21Lincoln Open 2019: 13.82High Wycombe Open 2019: 11.36Weston-super-Mare Open 2019: 13.64Guildford Open 2020: 12.28Chester Spring 2022: 11.73Cheltenham Summer 2022: 10.86Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 7.25Carlisle Summer 2022: 9.24August Bank Holiday Cheltenham 2022: 8.37Stevenage Autumn B 2022: 9.11Chippenham Autumn 2022: 9.13Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 8.44Wiltshire Winter 2023: 8.01Glasgow Winter 2023: 7.45Cambridge Side Events Winter 2023: 8.19Bolton Spring 2023: 7.71Wiltshire Spring 2023: 7.75Weston-super-Mare Spring 2023: 7.83Hampshire Spring 2023: 7.45Exeter Summer 2023: 8.37Wiltshire Summer 2023: 7.71Bristol Summer 2023: 8.24North Wales Summer 2023: 6.61Harrow Autumn 2023: 7.32Wiltshire Autumn 2023: 8.22Wakefield Autumn 2023: 5.69Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2023: 7.48Wiltshire December 2023: 6.74Stevenage January 2024: 6.28Bristol Winter 2024: 7.05Wiltshire February 2024: 8.15Wiltshire March 2024: 7.19Manchester Spring 2024: 7.37Bolton Summer 2024: 7.49Chichester Summer 2024: 7.39Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 6.50Lincolnshire Summer 2024: 7.52Kewbz UK Open 2024: 7.27Wiltshire September 2024: 7.27Hampshire Autumn 2024: 8.03Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 7.03Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2024: 3.69Wiltshire November 2024: 6.49Chichester January 2025: 6.42Stevenage March 2025: 6.94Wiltshire Spring 2025: 6.81Birmingham Spring 2025: 6.74Crewe Spring 2025: 6.52Weston-super-Mare Spring 2025: 6.21Kewbz Scottish Championship 2025: 6.73Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.33Wiltshire Summer 2025: 6.78Rubik's Irish Championship 2025: 6.60Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 6.22Bristol August 2025: 6.76Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2025: 6.57Hampshire Autumn 2025: 6.54Wiltshire Winter 2025: 6.49Weston-super-Mare Winter 2026: 7.52Wiltshire Spring 2026: 6.52Crewe Spring 2026: 6.59Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 6.44Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 6.773.6929.3726 Oct 201828 Aug 2026

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-3 3×3 single — 3 people have one; it is 0.69 away.
  • A sub-2 Clock single — 17 people have one; it is 0.56 away.

Targets move as he improves.