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Charlie Stark

2×2 · top 0.55% of 186,767 all-time · competing since November 2014 · 2014STAR05

Charlie Stark has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.00, set at Chester Spring 2022, puts him in the top 0.55% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 48th in the United Kingdom. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 97 competitions since November 2014, he has put 6,915 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.32 in November 2014 to 7.35, a 76% improvement. Charlie has entered 97 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.55% of 186,767 all-time
1.00
signature single · Chester Spring 2022
6,915
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
2×21.002.66
top 0.55%48 / 4,895
Square-15.737.23
top 0.64%6 / 778
Pyraminx2.054.12
top 1.2%49 / 3,656
Skewb2.024.37
top 1.4%38 / 2,421
3×37.359.25
top 1.8%134 / 6,689
3×3 Fewest Moves24 moves29.00
top 4.0%25 / 372
4×433.8439.54
top 5.7%134 / 2,071
Clock5.658.55
top 6.1%90 / 1,232
3×3 one-handed14.4317.63
top 6.9%139 / 1,851
Megaminx59.111:09.29
top 9.5%122 / 966
5×51:07.561:14.93
top 10.0%129 / 1,151
3×3 blindfolded55.561:16.21
top 11.6%61 / 311
6×62:13.462:27.89
top 17.1%108 / 548
7×73:42.163:58.90
top 24.3%114 / 459
3×3 Multi-Blind6 of 6 cubes · 45:31—
top 31.7%56 / 126
4×4 blindfolded11:29.00—
top 64.5%69 / 84

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

UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2014: 30.32Oxford Winter 2014: 23.82Harrow Spring 2015: 17.00Welcome Back to Guildford 2015: 16.42Welwyn Garden City 2015: 14.96The Glorious North 2015: 12.80August Bank Holiday Competition 2015: 13.62Cuthberts Open 2015: 13.81UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 13.49Welcome Thay Cambridge 2015: 12.18Manchester Open 2016: 12.31Exeter Open 2016: 12.36North London Open 2016: 12.44Irish Championship 2016: 11.89Macclesfield Open 2016: 11.35August Bank Holiday Competition 2016: 12.84Guildford Open 2016: 12.11UK Championship 2016: 11.70Birmingham Open 2016: 11.70Manchester Open 2017: 11.51Peterborough Open 2017: 11.49Newcastle-under-Lyme Open 2017: 10.21Crawley Open 2017: 12.69London Open 2017: 9.89World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 10.54August Bank Holiday Competition 2017: 10.08Guildford Open 2017: 9.39UK Championship 2017: 8.00Weston-super-Mare Open 2017: 10.19Welsh Open 2018: 11.38Manchester Open 2018: 10.43Guildford Open 2018: 10.65High Wycombe Open 2018: 10.09Hastings Open 2018: 8.97Peterborough Open 2018: 10.11WCA European Championship 2018: 9.84August Bank Holiday Competition 2018: 9.76Stratford-upon-Avon Open 2018: 9.66UK Championship 2018: 8.02Weston-super-Mare Open 2018: 9.80Cambridge Open 2018: 10.50Fontwell Open 2019: 9.69Manchester Open 2019: 9.98Welsh Open 2019: 9.07Chester Open 2019: 9.81Lincoln Open 2019: 8.78London Open 2019: 9.27High Wycombe Open 2019: 7.64British Summer Open 2019: 9.52Leeds Open 2019: 9.64August Bank Holiday Celebration 2019: 8.99UK Championship 2019: 10.33Weston-super-Mare Open 2019: 9.83Guildford Open 2020: 8.62Fontwell Open 2020: 9.73Doncaster Open 2020: 10.66Manchester Open 2020: 10.49Wakefield Open 2022: 9.71Weston-super-Mare Open 2022: 10.05Farnworth Spring D 2022: 10.22Sarzana Seaside Cubing 2022: 9.56Stevenage Spring 2022: 9.09Wakefield Spring 2022: 10.20Chester Spring 2022: 9.58Glasgow Open 2022: 8.55Cheltenham Summer 2022: 9.67Stevenage Summer 2022: 8.54Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 10.60Norwich Summer 2022: 8.44Carlisle Summer 2022: 8.64Lincoln Summer 2022: 10.30August Bank Holiday Cheltenham 2022: 9.38Wakefield Autumn 2022: 7.82Droitwich Spa Autumn 2022: 7.96Stevenage Autumn A 2022: 9.24Chippenham Autumn 2022: 8.01Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 10.29East London Autumn 2022: 8.94Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2022: 8.61Essex Winter 2022: 10.19UK New Year Countdown 2023: 10.05Wiltshire Winter 2023: 8.87Belfast Winter 2023: 9.06Stevenage January 2023: 9.06Glasgow Winter 2023: 8.50Guildford Winter 2023: 8.88Lincolnshire Winter 2023: 7.357.3530.321 Nov 201425 Feb 2023

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-5 Square-1 single — 68 people have one; it is 0.73 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.05 away.

Targets move as he improves.