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Brandon Poulton

4×4 · top 1.4% of 83,917 all-time · competing since May 2019 · 2019POUL02

Brandon Poulton has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 27.20, set at Stevenage October 2024, puts him in the top 1.4% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 38th in the United Kingdom. Until April 2012, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 33 competitions since May 2019, he has put 2,078 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 8.87 in May 2019 to 7.57, a 15% improvement. Brandon has entered 33 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 1.4% of 83,917 all-time
27.20
signature single · Stevenage October 2024
2,078
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
4×427.2032.58
top 1.4%38 / 2,071
3×37.579.54
top 2.1%164 / 6,689
5×555.2957.15
top 3.5%51 / 1,151
2×21.973.19
top 4.5%329 / 4,895
Clock5.207.06
top 4.9%73 / 1,232
6×61:43.921:48.55
top 5.2%33 / 548
7×72:43.202:58.80
top 6.2%29 / 459
Pyraminx4.015.90
top 7.7%298 / 3,656
Megaminx57.771:11.63
top 8.8%108 / 966
3×3 one-handed15.7618.81
top 9.7%194 / 1,851
Square-113.2019.82
top 12.3%126 / 778
Skewb4.396.12
top 13.7%316 / 2,421
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves36.67
top 23.4%108 / 372
3×3 blindfolded1:31.832:03.34
top 23.7%107 / 311
4×4 blindfolded7:50.76—
early days — 3 solves52 / 84
3×3 Multi-Blind4 of 5 cubes · 31:46—
early days — 1 solve93 / 126
5×5 blindfolded24:09.00—
early days — 1 solve41 / 50

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

London Open 2019: 8.87August Bank Holiday Celebration 2019: 11.28UK Championship 2019: 11.04Every Event Éire 2019: 7.83Guildford Open 2020: 10.45Fontwell Open 2020: 8.86Doncaster Open 2020: 8.93Don't DNF Dublin 2020: 9.66West London Open 2022: 9.23Glasgow Open 2022: 8.40East London Autumn 2022: 8.93Brent Cross Winter 2023: 8.85Bergen Spring 2023: 9.55Wakefield Spring 2023: 8.44Reading Spring 2023: 9.12Pangasinan Speedcubing Open 2023: 8.88Harrow Autumn 2023: 8.79Wakefield Autumn 2023: 8.13Tuam Winter 2023: 9.28Guildford Autumn 2023: 9.21Edinburgh Winter 2024: 8.11Belfast Summer 2024: 8.69Stevenage August 2024: 9.14Battersea Autumn 2024: 8.65Stevenage October 2024: 8.37Stevenage December 2024: 7.57Stevenage March 2025: 8.27Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2025: 8.61Stevenage October 2025: 8.137.5711.2811 May 201911 Oct 2025

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-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 2.20 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.57 away.

Targets move as he improves.