People · Australia
Beau Brittain-Modesto
2×2 · top 0.66% of 186,767 all-time · competing since March 2023 · 2023BRIT01
Beau Brittain-Modesto has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.05, set at NZ South Island Championship 2026, puts him in the top 0.66% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 70th in Australia. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since March 2023, he has put 1,130 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 82% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 36.14 in March 2023 to 8.90, a 75% improvement. Beau has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Australia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 1.05 | 1.90 | top 0.66% | 70 / 8,567 | |
| Pyraminx | 1.79 | 2.92 | top 0.82% | 45 / 5,993 | |
| 3×3 | 8.90 | 10.28 | top 4.6% | 432 / 11,709 | |
| Skewb | 3.06 | 4.63 | top 5.3% | 159 / 3,534 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 13.78 | 22.38 | top 5.7% | 130 / 2,659 | |
| Clock | 6.29 | 8.49 | top 8.3% | 105 / 1,095 | |
| Megaminx | 1:02.66 | 1:14.25 | top 11.4% | 142 / 1,277 | |
| 4×4 | 41.53 | 49.61 | top 13.9% | 343 / 3,051 | |
| 5×5 | 1:28.36 | 1:36.52 | top 25.9% | 351 / 1,356 | |
| Square-1 | 19.48 | 36.89 | top 26.8% | 258 / 899 | |
| 6×6 | 3:46.98 | 4:03.70 | top 61.2% | 376 / 641 |
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
- 31 Jan 2026Five personal bests in one day at Invercargill Summer 2026.
- 30 Aug 2025Three personal bests in one day at Ōtepoti Big Cubes 2025.
- 12 Apr 2025Nine personal bests in one day at NZ South Island Championship 2025.
- 11 Jan 2025Six personal bests in one day at Solving in the South Invercargill 2025.
- 13 Dec 2024Five personal bests in one day at New Zealand Nationals 2024.
- 10 Aug 2024First sub-10 3×3: 9.29 at Waihōpai Winter 2024.
Competitions
- Waihopai Winter 2026 · 22 Aug 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- GAN New Zealand Nationals 2026 · 10 Jul 2026 — 1 personal best set
- NZ South Island Championship 2026 · 10 Apr 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Invercargill Summer 2026 · 31 Jan 2026 — 5 personal bests set
- New Zealand Nationals 2025 · 12 Dec 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Ōtepoti Big Cubes 2025 · 30 Aug 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Waihopai Winter 2025 · 5 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- NZ South Island Championship 2025 · 12 Apr 2025 — 9 personal bests set
- Johnsonville FTOpen 2025 · 8 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Solving in the South Invercargill 2025 · 11 Jan 2025 — 6 personal bests set
- New Zealand Nationals 2024 · 13 Dec 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- Waihōpai Winter 2024 · 10 Aug 2024 — 6 personal bests set
- Ōtepoti Big Cubes 2024 · 15 Jun 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- NZ South Island Championship 2024 · 19 Apr 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Southern Solves Invercargill 2024 · 27 Jan 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Sydney Summer 2023 · 16 Dec 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Simple Sydney Sunday 2023 · 10 Sep 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Warm Up Sydney Sunday 2023 · 16 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Marrickville Mega May Open 2023 · 21 May 2023 — 1 personal best set
- North Sydney Cube Day 2023 · 5 Mar 2023
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.
- Gabe Smith — met in 193 rounds, finished ahead 148 times · head to head
- Daniel Fraser — met in 188 rounds, finished ahead 52 times
- Henry Eyles — met in 161 rounds, finished ahead 17 times
Next targets
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.05 away.
- A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.79 away.
Targets move as he improves.