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Alex Butera

Clock · top 0.12% of 32,048 all-time · competing since March 2021 · 2021BUTE03

Alex Butera has been competing for 6 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 2.22, set at Tassie Summer 2026, puts him in the top 0.12% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3rd in Australia. Until August 2024, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 70 competitions since March 2021, he has put 4,035 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 2×2 best has come down from 3.31 in March 2021 to 1.03, a 69% improvement. Alex has entered 70 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 0.12% of 32,048 all-time
2.22
signature single · Tassie Summer 2026
4,035
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
Clock2.223.25
top 0.12%3 / 1,095
Skewb1.473.38
top 0.41%22 / 3,534
2×21.031.73
top 0.62%63 / 8,567
Pyraminx1.674.69
top 0.63%38 / 5,993
3×36.708.53
top 1.0%117 / 11,709
Square-16.7310.06
top 1.4%15 / 899
3×3 one-handed12.5415.00
top 3.7%84 / 2,659
4×433.3938.96
top 5.3%139 / 3,051
5×51:07.221:14.61
top 9.8%132 / 1,356
Megaminx59.931:05.51
top 10.0%124 / 1,277
3×3 blindfolded50.861:12.47
top 10.1%50 / 394
3×3 Fewest Moves31 moves34.33
top 17.4%81 / 468
6×62:34.852:41.30
top 28.1%169 / 641
3×3 Multi-Blind6 of 6 cubes · 31:06—
top 29.7%57 / 180
7×73:59.684:15.72
top 30.6%138 / 523
4×4 blindfolded7:16.3410:31.00
top 39.0%35 / 96
5×5 blindfolded20:31.00—
early days — 2 solves32 / 51

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

Barwon Cube for the Kids 2021: 3.31Solving in Sale 2021: 2.90Melbourne Summer 2022: 3.25Brilliant Ballarat 2022: 3.64Melbourne Mini Sunday 2022: 4.09Solving in Sale 2022: 2.87Melbourne Trilogy Sunday 2022: 3.41Apollo Bay Cubing 2022: 2.74Koalafication Melbourne 2022: 2.23Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2022: 3.32Tassie Summer 2023: 2.88Melbourne Summer 2023: 2.80Brilliant Ballarat 2023: 3.73Speedcubing at Seaworks 2023: 1.35Solving in Sale 2023: 2.52Chilling in Canberra 2023: 2.35Apollo Bay Cubing 2023: 1.65Victorian Open 2023: 1.88Geelong Winter 2023: 2.15Cubing with Penguins by Phillip Island 2023: 1.93Australian Nationals 2023: 1.20Playford Cubing 2023: 1.85Melbourne Cube Days 2023: 2.01Mildura Madness 2023: 1.52Tassie Summer 2024: 2.01Melbourne Summer 2024: 1.67Altona Algorithms 2024: 1.86Brilliant Ballarat 2024: 1.99Cubing at The Game Expo 2024: 1.36Solving In Sale 2024: 2.09SA Sprint Showdown 2024: 1.47Apollo Bay Cubing 2024: 1.31Australian Nationals 2024: 2.15The Big Cube Melbourne 2024: 1.44Hobart Winter 2024: 1.03Geelong Winter 2024: 1.21Nimble Newborough 2024: 1.53Melbourne Cube Days 2024: 1.48Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2024: 2.02Tassie Summer 2025: 1.54Adelaide Summer 2025: 1.56Melbourne Summer 2025: 1.33Brilliant Ballarat 2025: 1.16Spark Melbourne February 2025: 1.36Solving in Sale 2025: 1.06Don't Inverloch Up 2025: 1.18Spark Melbourne July 2025: 1.17Adelaide Summer 2026: 1.55Tassie Summer 2026: 1.12Melbourne Summer 2026: 2.07Don't Inverloch Up 2026: 1.40West Melbourne Open 2026: 1.48Solving in Sale 2026: 1.09Brilliant Ballarat 2026: 1.33Australian Nationals 2026: 1.34Geelong Winter 2026: 1.321.034.0914 Mar 202129 Aug 2026

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-2 Clock single — 17 people have one; it is 0.22 away.
  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.47 away.

Targets move as he improves.