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Brendan James Gray

Pyraminx · top 7.9% of 129,321 all-time · competing since November 2014 · 2014GRAY03

Brendan James Gray has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 4.05, set at Cape Town 2016, puts him in the top 7.9% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 58th in South Africa. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 44 competitions since November 2014, he has put 1,459 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.88 in November 2014 to 13.55, a 46% improvement. Brendan has entered 44 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 7.9% of 129,321 all-time
4.05
signature single · Cape Town 2016
1,459
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
Pyraminx4.058.12
top 7.9%58 / 946
Skewb4.376.20
top 13.5%51 / 438
3×3 Fewest Moves30 moves38.67
top 14.8%8 / 53
3×313.5515.53
top 19.4%237 / 2,164
3×3 one-handed19.6824.50
top 19.6%55 / 467
2×23.465.67
top 19.7%202 / 1,510
Square-118.8232.18
top 25.3%26 / 118
Clock10.2712.80
top 26.5%33 / 148
4×457.221:08.19
top 33.4%108 / 491
3×3 blindfolded2:12.973:06.89
top 37.6%17 / 53
3×3 Multi-Blind6 of 7 cubes · 52:35—
early days — 2 solves12 / 27
5×52:04.322:21.28
top 52.0%89 / 221
Megaminx2:12.832:29.40
top 52.7%97 / 266
6×63:57.394:08.87
top 64.5%47 / 84
7×76:21.496:31.62
top 72.5%40 / 69
4×4 blindfolded18:53.00—
early days — 1 solve14 / 15

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

Johannesburg 2014: 24.88Pops Toys Summer 2015: 25.44Tuks Open 2015: 22.81Tuks Winter 2015: 20.97Pretoria Science Week 2015: 15.71Pops Winter 2015: 17.38Johannesburg Open 2015: 15.30Cape Town Open 2015: 16.13Big 'n Weird Pretoria 2016: 16.77Johannesburg Open 2016: 17.68Cape Town Open 2016: 15.03Johannesburg 2016: 15.66Cape Town 2016: 15.47Gauteng Winter 2017: 16.63Eden Village Winter 2017: 16.52Speedcubes Johannesburg 2017: 13.55Big 'n Weird Pretoria 2017: 15.22Gauteng Autumn 2018: 15.47Arnold Classic Africa 2018: 16.12Soweto Spring Open 2018: 14.69Gauteng Summer 2019: 14.67KwaZulu-Natal 2019: 15.07Arnold Classic Africa 2019: 15.16Gauteng Autumn 2022: 15.41Arnold Classic Africa 2022: 14.55Limpopo 2022: 15.41Inni-Horie-Fees Speedcubing 2022: 17.19Rubik's WCA African Championship 2022: 15.05Just Cube Joburg 2022: 14.49Crazy Cubing Centurion 2023: 14.30Cubestuff Challenge Q1 2024: 14.44Benoni Cubing Comeback 2024: 14.33Rubik's WCA African Championship 2024: 13.97Inni-Horie-Fees 2024: 14.82Cubestuff Q4 Zwartkop 2025: 15.3813.5525.4423 Nov 201429 Nov 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-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.05 away.
  • A sub-4 Skewb single — 7,977 people have one; it is 0.37 away.

Targets move as he improves.