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Billy O'Loan

2×2 · top 3.2% of 186,767 all-time · competing since January 2019 · 2019OLOA01

Billy O'Loan has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.72, set at Melbourne Summer 2026, puts him in the top 3.2% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 259th in Australia. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since January 2019, he has put 199 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 93% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 44.28 in January 2019 to 9.64, a 78% improvement. Billy has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 3.2% of 186,767 all-time
1.72
signature single · Melbourne Summer 2026
199
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 93% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
2×21.725.37
top 3.2%259 / 8,567
3×39.6412.98
top 6.5%590 / 11,709
Pyraminx4.446.69
top 9.9%457 / 5,993
3×3 one-handed18.7922.73
top 17.2%381 / 2,659
Skewb5.5411.53
top 22.3%587 / 3,534
4×41:12.05
top 48.9%1,326 / 3,051

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

Melbourne Summer 2019: 44.28Melbourne Summer 2021: 23.38VIC State Championship 2025: 14.55Spark Melbourne July 2025: 16.36Geelong Winter 2025: 14.57The Big Cube Melbourne 2025: 15.42Melbourne Cube Days 2025: 12.10Adelaide Summer 2026: 14.26Melbourne Summer 2026: 12.17Spark Melbourne Autumn Saturday 2026: 9.64Australian Nationals 2026: 10.499.6444.2826 Jan 20199 Jul 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.72 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.64 away.

Targets move as he improves.