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Bradley Speed

2×2 · top 0.95% of 186,767 all-time · competing since August 2014 · 2014SPEE01

Bradley Speed has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.17, set at Sydney Winter 2015, puts him in the top 0.95% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 94th in Australia. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since August 2014, he has put 398 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.86 in August 2014 to 10.20, a 46% improvement. Bradley has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.95% of 186,767 all-time
1.17
signature single · Sydney Winter 2015
398
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
2×21.173.36
top 0.95%94 / 8,567
3×310.2011.82
top 8.0%735 / 11,709
Pyraminx5.317.25
top 15.1%730 / 5,993
4×444.2047.78
top 17.3%424 / 3,051
3×3 one-handed19.8424.08
top 20.1%456 / 2,659
5×51:32.161:48.11
top 29.1%395 / 1,356
Skewb7.1910.68
top 35.1%1,016 / 3,534
Megaminx2:48.32
early days — 1 solve910 / 1,277
3×3 Fewest Moves47 moves48.67
early days — 3 solves315 / 468

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

Australian Nationals 2014: 18.86Sydney Spring 2014: 15.34Sydney Autumn 2015: 12.41Canberra Autumn 2015: 10.93Newcastle Winter 2015: 11.22Sydney Winter 2015: 10.20Sydney Summer 2015: 11.28Sydney Autumn 2016: 11.29Australian Nationals 2016: 12.75Cubing at The Cube Saturday 2023: 10.6710.2018.8616 Aug 201421 Jan 2023

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 0.17 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.20 away.

Targets move as he improves.