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Ashley Hatch

3×3 · top 1.6% of 288,433 all-time · competing since February 2022 · 2022HATC01

Ashley Hatch has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.19, set at Weston-super-Mare Winter 2025, puts him in the top 1.6% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 115th in the United Kingdom. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since February 2022, he has put 889 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 59% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.74 in February 2022 to 7.19, a 33% improvement. Ashley has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.6% of 288,433 all-time
7.19
signature single · Weston-super-Mare Winter 2025
889
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×37.199.46
top 1.6%115 / 6,785
2×21.934.02
top 4.3%309 / 4,946
3×3 one-handed13.6519.72
top 5.6%108 / 1,861
Pyraminx3.807.98
top 6.7%270 / 3,704
4×436.2842.50
top 8.0%197 / 2,112
5×51:15.441:19.91
top 15.8%212 / 1,167
Clock8.8511.45
top 19.1%267 / 1,255
3×3 blindfolded1:28.91—
top 22.6%100 / 315
3×3 Multi-Blind6 of 6 cubes · 42:15—
early days — 2 solves55 / 126
6×62:44.202:54.29
top 33.2%198 / 560
Skewb7.429.13
top 37.0%890 / 2,439
3×3 Fewest Moves38 moves—
early days — 2 solves167 / 372
7×75:06.855:27.31
top 52.8%260 / 463
Square-137.0440.63
top 61.4%514 / 789
Megaminx2:53.96—
early days — 1 solve835 / 998

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

West London Open 2022: 10.74Weston-super-Mare Open 2022: 8.81Cheltenham Summer 2022: 10.17Stevenage Summer 2022: 9.95August Bank Holiday Cheltenham 2022: 11.12Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 10.39Exeter Summer 2023: 8.63Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 8.51Guildford Autumn 2023: 9.23Stevenage June 2024: 9.47Bristol Summer 2024: 8.72Stevenage August 2024: 9.00Kewbz UK Open 2024: 7.99Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 8.26Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2024: 8.79Weston-super-Mare Winter 2025: 7.19Manchester Spring 2025: 9.09Bristol June 2025: 8.12Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 8.767.1911.1219 Feb 202222 Aug 2025

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.

  • Ben Stokes — met in 134 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
  • Jake Brown — met in 132 rounds, finished ahead once
  • Oliver Wheat — met in 129 rounds, finished ahead 42 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.19 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.93 away.

Targets move as he improves.