People · Ireland
Cathal Murdock
2×2 · top 4.1% of 186,767 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022MURD01
Cathal Murdock has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.89, set at Rubik's Irish Championship 2024, puts him in the top 4.1% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 75th in Ireland. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since July 2022, he has put 540 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 81% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 32.19 in July 2022 to 9.20, a 71% improvement. Cathal has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Ireland | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 1.89 | 3.43 | top 4.1% | 75 / 1,163 | |
| 3×3 | 9.20 | 12.15 | top 5.3% | 82 / 1,427 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.72 | 10.30 | top 18.0% | 209 / 911 | |
| Skewb | 5.31 | 11.77 | top 20.6% | 142 / 624 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 28.01 | 33.49 | top 42.0% | 165 / 448 | |
| 4×4 | 1:11.40 | — | top 48.3% | 238 / 579 | |
| 5×5 | 3:55.86 | — | early days — 2 solves | 279 / 296 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 8 Dec 2023First sub-10 3×3: 9.71 at Italian Championship 2023.
- 8 Dec 2023Three personal bests in one day at Italian Championship 2023.
- 22 Apr 2023Three personal bests in one day at Valsugana Speedcubing 2023.
- 1 Apr 2023Three personal bests in one day at Cubing Italy for Charity 2023.
- 4 Feb 2023First sub-15 3×3: 13.18 at Swisscubing Cup I 2023.
- 4 Nov 2022First sub-20 3×3: 16.93 at Irish Championship 2022.
Competitions
- Rubik's Irish Championship 2025 · 15 Aug 2025
- Valsugana Speedcubing 2024 · 19 Oct 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Italian Open 2024 · 21 Sep 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024 · 25 Jul 2024
- Rubik's Irish Championship 2024 · 5 Jul 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Italian Championship 2023 · 8 Dec 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Tridentum Open 2023 · 30 Sep 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Muggiò & Chill Open 2023 · 16 Sep 2023
- Dublin Summer Solving Saturday 2023 · 19 Aug 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Feltre: WC Warmup 2023 · 15 Jul 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Irish Championship 2023 · 7 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- NexCube Italian Open 2023 · 24 Jun 2023 — 1 personal best set
- French Championship 2023 · 6 May 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Valsugana Speedcubing 2023 · 22 Apr 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Cavarzere Cube Days 2023 · 15 Apr 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubing Italy for Charity 2023 · 1 Apr 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Swisscubing Cup I 2023 · 4 Feb 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Irish Championship 2022 · 4 Nov 2022 — 6 personal bests set
- Dublin Open Saturday 2022 · 20 Aug 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Swisscubing Cup III 2022 · 2 Jul 2022
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.
- Matteo Provasi — met in 67 rounds, finished ahead 15 times
- Simone Cantarelli — met in 63 rounds, finished ahead 17 times
- Fabian Tomasović — met in 63 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.89 away.
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.20 away.
Targets move as he improves.