People · United Kingdom
Alex Walker
3×3 Fewest Moves · top 9.9% of 12,294 all-time · competing since June 2017 · 2017WALK02
Alex Walker has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 28 moves, set at Cambridge Side Events Winter 2023, puts him in the top 9.9% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 47th in the United Kingdom. Across 13 competitions since June 2017, he has put 139 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 86% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.90 in June 2017 to 13.76, a 23% improvement. Alex has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United Kingdom | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 28 moves | 31.67 | top 9.9% | 47 / 372 | |
| 3×3 | 13.76 | 15.61 | top 20.1% | 1,355 / 6,689 | |
| 2×2 | 4.46 | 5.84 | top 32.4% | 1,727 / 4,895 | |
| Pyraminx | 9.90 | 18.90 | top 52.2% | 2,111 / 3,656 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 44.65 | — | early days — 2 solves | 1,245 / 1,851 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 27 Oct 2017First sub-15 3×3: 14.77 at UK Championship 2017.
- 3 Jun 2017First competition: Crawley Open 2017. A 17.90 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Rubik's UK Championship 2023 · 20 Oct 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's UK Championship FMC 2023 · 14 Oct 2023
- Newham Autumn - British Blind Off 2023 · 23 Sep 2023
- Suffolk Summer 2023 · 1 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- FMC London Summer 2023 · 10 Jun 2023
- Cambridge Side Events Winter 2023 · 11 Feb 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Clact-On Socks Off 2019 · 14 Dec 2019 — 1 personal best set
- UK Championship 2019 · 25 Oct 2019
- London Open 2019 · 11 May 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Welsh Open 2018 · 27 Jan 2018
- UK Championship 2017 · 27 Oct 2017 — 1 personal best set
- August Bank Holiday Competition 2017 · 26 Aug 2017 — 1 personal best set
- Crawley Open 2017 · 3 Jun 2017
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.
- Robert Yau — met in 31 rounds, finished ahead once
- Fabio Schwandt — met in 30 rounds, never finished ahead
- Callum Hales-Jepp — met in 24 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.76 away.
- A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.46 away.
Targets move as he improves.