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Charlie Butler

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 3.0% of 12,294 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022BUTL06

Charlie Butler has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 23 moves, set at FMC for Cancer Reigate 2026, puts him in the top 3.0% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 20th in the United Kingdom. Across 43 competitions since October 2022, he has put 1,727 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 61% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.40 in October 2022 to 9.37, a 39% improvement. Charlie has entered 43 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 3.0% of 12,294 all-time
23 moves
signature single · FMC for Cancer Reigate 2026
1,727
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×3 Fewest Moves23 moves24.67
top 3.0%20 / 372
3×39.3711.99
top 5.8%427 / 6,689
Pyraminx3.615.77
top 5.9%218 / 3,656
2×22.233.81
top 6.5%459 / 4,895
4×437.5143.16
top 9.3%217 / 2,071
Clock7.029.71
top 11.0%146 / 1,232
Skewb4.036.38
top 11.1%250 / 2,421
Square-113.3320.13
top 12.6%127 / 778
5×51:14.671:25.72
top 15.1%202 / 1,151
Megaminx1:14.771:24.75
top 18.5%219 / 966
6×62:28.552:47.05
top 24.9%146 / 548
3×3 blindfolded1:54.972:52.75
top 31.7%137 / 311
7×74:10.074:27.81
top 34.3%161 / 459
3×3 one-handed25.4331.91
top 35.3%629 / 1,851
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 6 cubes · 54:13—
top 47.4%80 / 126

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

Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 15.40Essex Spring 2023: 15.01Suffolk Summer 2023: 12.65Wiltshire Autumn 2023: 13.44Glasgow Autumn 2023: 14.42Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 14.19Stevenage January 2024: 12.57Manchester Spring 2024: 12.25Manchester June 2024: 12.15Stevenage July 2024: 10.77Bristol Summer 2024: 11.34Stevenage August 2024: 11.03Kewbz UK Open 2024: 12.73Wiltshire September 2024: 10.98Ipswich Autumn 2024: 9.37Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2024: 10.42Weston-super-Mare Winter 2025: 11.66Chichester January 2025: 10.32Hvidovre NxN 2025: 10.67Hampshire Winter 2025: 12.32Wiltshire Spring 2025: 10.50Manchester Spring 2025: 10.94Peterborough Odd Day 2025: 11.36Coventry Spring 2025: 12.26Stevenage June 2025: 11.31Wiltshire Summer 2025: 10.57Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 10.63Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2025: 9.41Portugal Championship 2025: 10.20Wiltshire Winter 2025: 11.41Wiltshire Spring 2026: 10.46Weston-super-Mare Spring 2026: 9.43South Wales Summer 2026: 10.88Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 10.469.3715.4028 Oct 202228 Aug 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.37 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.61 away.

Targets move as he improves.