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Bernard Solomon

3×3 · top 3.6% of 288,433 all-time · competing since October 2013 · 2013SOLO02

Bernard Solomon has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.44, set at London Open 2017, puts him in the top 3.6% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 298th in the United Kingdom. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since October 2013, he has put 971 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 58% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.21 in October 2013 to 8.44, a 54% improvement. Bernard has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.6% of 288,433 all-time
8.44
signature single · London Open 2017
971
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×38.449.84
top 3.6%298 / 6,785
2×21.884.15
top 4.1%291 / 4,946
Megaminx48.5657.04
top 4.5%63 / 998
3×3 one-handed13.5720.35
top 5.4%104 / 1,861
4×437.3843.81
top 9.2%221 / 2,112
Pyraminx4.486.38
top 10.1%403 / 3,704
Skewb4.778.96
top 16.5%395 / 2,439
5×51:33.541:40.81
top 30.3%398 / 1,167
Square-140.5249.82
top 66.0%544 / 789
3×3 Fewest Moves49 moves—
early days — 1 solve300 / 372
3×3 blindfolded5:13.22—
early days — 2 solves280 / 315

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

Cuthberts Open 2013: 18.21UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 18.09Nottingham Open 2014: 16.86Welwyn Garden City Open 2014: 11.55ABHC 2014: 11.88Oxford Winter 2014: 11.13Harrow Spring 2015: 10.21Welcome Back to Guildford 2015: 9.79Welwyn Garden City 2015: 11.24The Glorious North 2015: 10.59August Bank Holiday Competition 2015: 10.11UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 10.47Exeter Open 2016: 10.40European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 12.52Guildford Open 2016: 8.66UK Championship 2016: 9.21London Open 2017: 8.44World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 8.95Guildford Open 2017: 9.40UK Championship 2017: 8.55WCA World Championship 2019: 9.498.4418.215 Oct 201311 Jul 2019

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.

  • Robert Yau — met in 220 rounds, finished ahead once
  • James Molloy — met in 203 rounds, finished ahead 82 times
  • Harry Savage — met in 158 rounds, finished ahead 47 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.44 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.88 away.

Targets move as he improves.