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Alex Asbery

3×3 · top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2013 · 2013ASBE01

Alex Asbery has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.95, set at Johnsonville FTOpen 2025, puts him in the top 1.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 44th in New Zealand. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 99 competitions since July 2013, he has put 4,881 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.96 in July 2013 to 6.95, a 54% improvement. Alex has entered 99 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time
6.95
signature single · Johnsonville FTOpen 2025
4,881
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNew Zealand
3×36.959.96
top 1.3%44 / 2,095
4×430.7037.04
top 3.3%38 / 722
2×21.783.20
top 3.5%98 / 1,615
3×3 one-handed13.9221.00
top 6.0%53 / 600
5×51:02.721:10.30
top 7.0%31 / 355
6×62:03.752:16.34
top 12.5%27 / 149
Megaminx1:12.321:23.27
top 17.0%69 / 283
7×73:24.023:32.62
top 17.7%26 / 126
Skewb6.8010.31
top 32.1%249 / 666
3×3 Fewest Moves38 moves—
early days — 2 solves57 / 111
Pyraminx9.5015.87
top 49.0%642 / 1,141
Square-137.0138.18
top 61.3%165 / 251

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

World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 14.96New Zealand Nationals 2013: 11.69Wellington Autumn 2014: 11.44Hamilton Spring 2014: 12.28New Zealand Nationals 2014: 11.02Wellington Winter 2015: 11.61Hamilton Spring 2015: 10.80New Zealand Nationals 2015: 8.87Wellington Autumn 2016: 11.17Hamilton Winter 2016: 11.12Palmerston North 2016: 10.12New Zealand Nationals 2016: 10.17Mind Games 2017: 10.85SNZ Southern 2017: 10.30Techweek NZ 2017: 11.12SNZ Northern 2017: 9.62Supreme South Open 2017: 10.42Hamilton Spring 2017: 10.21New Zealand Nationals 2017: 10.06NxNZ Open 2018: 9.68Mind Games 2018: 8.70SNZ Southern 2018: 9.76Palmerston North 2018: 9.62SNZ Northern 2018: 10.20Wellington Winter 2018: 8.03Auckland Spring 2018: 8.18Supreme South Open 2018: 8.56New Zealand Nationals 2018: 7.24Mind Games 2019: 8.27SNZ Southern 2019: 9.90NxNZ 2019: 9.98Koalafication Palmy 2019: 9.36Oceania 10th Anniversary 2019: 9.02WCA World Championship 2019: 9.36New Zealand Nationals 2019: 9.62Wellington Mind Games 2020: 9.46Auckland Summer Open 2020: 10.09Welcome Back Wellington 2020: 10.00New Zealand Nationals 2020: 10.14A New Year in Auckland 2021: 10.28Wellington Mind Games 2021: 10.54Twisty Taranaki 2021: 10.24NZ South Island Championship 2021: 9.84Palmerston North 2021: 8.73Nimble Napier 2021: 9.39Southern Scramble Dunedin 2021: 10.23NZ North Island Championship 2021: 9.38Lyttelton Spring 2021: 8.00Popping Off Pukekohe B 2022: 11.27Palmerston North 2022: 9.10Lyttelton Autumn 2022: 8.72Twisty Taranaki 2022: 8.84Puzzling Porirua 2022: 10.70NZ South Island Championship 2022: 9.19NZ North Island Championship 2022: 9.81Opawa Open 2022: 8.62Lyttelton Spring 2022: 10.01New Zealand Nationals 2022: 8.74Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2022: 11.12A New Year in Hamilton 2023: 8.70Wellington Summer 2023: 9.72Southernmost Solving 2023: 9.22Palmerston North 2023: 9.03Auckland Autumn 2023: 8.94Cashmere Open 2023: 10.51Ōtepoti Winter 2023: 10.08Half Turns Hataitai 2023: 8.85New Zealand Nationals 2023: 8.62A New Year in Auckland 2024: 9.76Welcome to Wellington 2024: 9.48Beachside Auckland 2024: 8.63NZ South Island Championship 2024: 8.99Palmerston North 2024: 9.03Fast Solves in Fendalton 2024: 9.63Solve Well In Wellington 2024: 9.39Auckland Matariki Open 2024: 10.01NZ North Island Championship 2024: 9.68Kubing in Kapiti 2024: 9.70New Zealand Nationals 2024: 8.47Just Solve in Johnsonville 2025: 8.39Johnsonville FTOpen 2025: 6.95Wellington Skewb Showdown 2025: 8.07Wellington Winter 2025: 7.33NZ North Island Championship 2025: 8.18Solve Well in Wellington 2025: 9.87NZ Cubing in the Capital 2025: 8.58Wellington Spring 2025: 9.12New Zealand Nationals 2025: 9.09Farewellington 2025: 7.97Hurry Up Hutt Valley 2026: 8.49A New Year in Auckland 2026: 9.42NZ North Island Championship 2026: 9.22North-East Melbourne March Sunday 2026: 8.47NZ Cubing Heptathlon 2026: 9.76NZ South Island Championship 2026: 9.04Wellington Autumn 2026: 7.95GAN New Zealand Nationals 2026: 8.366.9514.9626 Jul 201310 Jul 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.95 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 0.70 away.

Targets move as he improves.