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Charlie Handley

2×2 · top 0.075% of 186,767 all-time · competing since April 2023 · 2023HAND04

Charlie Handley has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.65, set at Australian Nationals 2025, puts him in the top 0.075% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 18th in Australia. Until June 2015, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 51 competitions since April 2023, he has put 2,490 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 84% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 38.36 in April 2023 to 5.94, an 85% improvement. Charlie has entered 51 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.075% of 186,767 all-time
0.65
signature single · Australian Nationals 2025
2,490
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 84% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
2×20.651.58
top 0.075%18 / 8,567
Pyraminx1.322.15
top 0.24%18 / 5,993
3×35.947.84
top 0.45%48 / 11,709
Skewb1.943.39
top 1.2%48 / 3,534
4×429.3635.34
top 2.5%62 / 3,051
3×3 one-handed12.3914.59
top 3.5%78 / 2,659
Megaminx50.3557.17
top 5.2%69 / 1,277
Clock5.647.31
top 6.1%78 / 1,095
5×51:04.091:09.63
top 7.8%106 / 1,356
Square-111.2813.99
top 8.5%85 / 899
6×62:04.032:19.23
top 12.7%74 / 641
3×3 Fewest Moves31 moves39.67
top 17.4%81 / 468
7×74:19.724:31.11
top 37.6%183 / 523
3×3 blindfolded2:43.51—
top 47.7%208 / 394

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

Solving in Sale 2023: 38.36Victorian Open 2023: 24.28Melbourne Cubing for Kids Sunday 2023: 17.85Cranbourne Spring Sunday 2023: 16.26Cubing with Penguins by Phillip Island 2023: 16.66Melbourne Cube Days 2023: 11.71Hampton Park Summer Saturday 2023: 9.01Melbourne Summer 2024: 11.85Don't Inverloch Up 2024: 11.37Altona Algorithms 2024: 9.86Solving In Sale 2024: 9.91Australian Nationals 2024: 10.32Geelong Winter 2024: 9.73MarsdeNxN 2024: 7.86Coffs Big Banana Bonanza 2024: 9.25Nimble Newborough 2024: 9.31Melbourne Cube Days 2024: 8.77Melbourne Summer 2025: 7.93Brilliant Ballarat 2025: 7.54Spark Melbourne February 2025: 8.36Solving in Sale 2025: 7.90Don't Inverloch Up 2025: 7.36VIC State Championship 2025: 6.95Spark Melbourne July 2025: 6.97Geelong Winter 2025: 6.28Puzzling Pakenham Sunday 2025: 6.61Australian Nationals 2025: 7.40The Big Cube Melbourne 2025: 7.55Apollo Bay Cubing 2025: 9.14Nimble Newborough 2025: 7.27Melbourne Cube Days 2025: 7.82Melbourne Summer 2026: 6.87Don't Inverloch Up 2026: 7.22North-East Melbourne March Saturday 2026: 7.33West Melbourne Open 2026: 8.65Solving in Sale 2026: 7.19Spark Melbourne Autumn Sunday 2026: 6.77Brilliant Ballarat 2026: 8.11Australian Nationals 2026: 7.61Geelong Winter 2026: 5.945.9438.3615 Apr 202329 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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.32 away.
  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.94 away.

Targets move as he improves.