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Austin Ritchie

Square-1 · top 1.2% of 25,272 all-time · competing since March 2022 · 2022RITC01

Austin Ritchie has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 6.53, set at Bristol Winter Open 2024, puts him in the top 1.2% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13th in the United Kingdom. Until May 2017, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 29 competitions since March 2022, he has put 1,396 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.16 in March 2022 to 7.46, a 27% improvement. Austin has entered 29 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 1.2% of 25,272 all-time
6.53
signature single · Bristol Winter Open 2024
1,396
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 74% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
Square-16.538.13
top 1.2%13 / 778
3×37.469.09
top 1.9%151 / 6,689
2×22.003.06
top 4.7%346 / 4,895
4×434.0540.89
top 5.9%140 / 2,071
Clock5.726.92
top 6.3%91 / 1,232
3×3 one-handed16.3718.01
top 11.1%218 / 1,851
Pyraminx4.686.68
top 11.3%446 / 3,656
Megaminx1:13.361:26.67
top 17.7%208 / 966
5×51:21.151:33.50
top 20.0%264 / 1,151
3×3 Fewest Moves34 moves—
early days — 1 solve118 / 372
3×3 blindfolded4:25.50—
early days — 2 solves264 / 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

Weston-super-Mare Open 2022: 10.16Norwich Summer 2022: 10.33Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 10.47Lincolnshire Winter 2023: 9.25Don't Lockup Loch Garman 2023: 8.04Irish Championship 2023: 8.41Isle of Wight Summer 2023: 7.90Norwich Summer 2023: 7.93Kent Autumn 2023: 7.46Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 7.78Gort-a Go Fast 2024: 8.17Glasgow Spring 2024: 8.92Rubik's Irish Championship 2024: 9.64Chichester Summer 2024: 8.05Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 9.42Wiltshire September 2024: 9.04Bristol Winter Open 2024: 8.17Marble City Cubing IE 2025: 9.07Chichester April 2025: 8.15Rubik's Irish Championship 2025: 9.48Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 8.65Wiltshire Winter 2025: 8.96Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 8.07Rubik's Irish Championship 2026: 10.22Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 10.367.4610.4719 Mar 202228 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-6 Square-1 single — 201 people have one; it is 0.53 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.46 away.

Targets move as he improves.