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Chris Mills

2×2 · top 0.024% of 186,767 all-time · competing since October 2014 · 2014MILL04

Chris Mills has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.56, set at NSW State Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.024% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2nd in New Zealand. Until March 2016, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 157 competitions since October 2014, he has put 11,315 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 50% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.86 in October 2014 to 4.59, an 82% improvement. Chris has entered 157 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.024% of 186,767 all-time
0.56
signature single · NSW State Championship 2025
11,315
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 50% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNew Zealand
2×20.561.52
top 0.024%2 / 1,615
3×34.596.01
top 0.054%5 / 2,095
3×3 one-handed7.829.59
top 0.17%4 / 600
4×422.2225.45
top 0.21%4 / 722
Pyraminx1.392.35
top 0.3%22 / 1,141
Skewb1.593.21
top 0.56%6 / 666
Megaminx35.1839.54
top 0.68%4 / 283
5×546.7353.54
top 0.98%8 / 355
Square-19.2212.48
top 4.8%15 / 251
Clock5.486.96
top 5.7%32 / 303
3×3 Fewest Moves26 moves31.67
top 6.2%12 / 111
6×61:51.082:01.65
top 7.6%18 / 149
7×73:09.263:33.10
top 13.1%22 / 126
3×3 blindfolded1:29.792:56.26
top 23.0%40 / 86
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 3 cubes · 21:21—
top 52.7%27 / 49

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

Cuthberts Open 2014: 25.86Oxford Winter 2014: 18.56Harrow Spring 2015: 17.00Welcome Back to Guildford 2015: 15.16August Bank Holiday Competition 2015: 11.26UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 10.78New Zealand Nationals 2015: 10.90North London Open 2016: 10.47Guildford Open 2016: 10.54UK Championship 2016: 10.26Birmingham Open 2016: 9.96Peterborough Open 2017: 10.49Crawley Open 2017: 10.96London Open 2017: 9.82World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 9.21August Bank Holiday Competition 2017: 8.70Guildford Open 2017: 9.00UK Championship 2017: 11.58New Zealand Nationals 2017: 9.02Guildford Open 2018: 8.10High Wycombe Open 2018: 8.43Hastings Open 2018: 7.23Peterborough Open 2018: 8.65WCA European Championship 2018: 7.54August Bank Holiday Competition 2018: 8.01UK Championship 2018: 7.10Weston-super-Mare Open 2018: 8.36Cambridge Open 2018: 7.91Fontwell Open 2019: 6.92Manchester Open 2019: 7.90Denmark & Friends 2019: 8.14Chester Open 2019: 8.24Lincoln Open 2019: 7.55London Open 2019: 6.94British Summer Open 2019: 6.85Warm Up Sydney 2019: 7.57WCA World Championship 2019: 7.21Leeds Open 2019: 6.50August Bank Holiday Celebration 2019: 5.00Nordic Championship 2019: 7.91UK Championship 2019: 6.88Weston-super-Mare Open 2019: 7.31New Zealand Nationals 2019: 6.67Guildford Open 2020: 7.20Fontwell Open 2020: 6.98Doncaster Open 2020: 5.91Wellington Mind Games 2021: 5.81Twisty Taranaki 2021: 6.48NZ South Island Championship 2021: 5.58Palmerston North 2021: 6.38Nimble Napier 2021: 6.18Southern Scramble Dunedin 2021: 7.29NZ North Island Championship 2021: 5.75Lyttelton Spring 2021: 5.47Popping Off Pukekohe A 2022: 6.34Palmerston North 2022: 6.10Lyttelton Autumn 2022: 6.40Weston-super-Mare Open 2022: 6.34Seaside Solving Saturday 2022: 6.24Farnworth Spring D 2022: 6.21Stevenage Spring 2022: 6.67Glasgow Open 2022: 6.06Cheltenham Summer 2022: 6.49Stevenage Summer 2022: 6.45Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 6.13Carlisle Summer 2022: 5.83Dublin Open Saturday 2022: 5.90August Bank Holiday Cheltenham 2022: 4.59Danish Championship 2022: 6.33Wakefield Autumn 2022: 5.60Sandnes Open 2022: 5.96Stevenage Autumn A 2022: 5.89Chippenham Autumn 2022: 5.75Kjeller Open 2022: 5.95Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 5.91Melbourne Cube Days 2022: 6.22Lyttelton Spring 2022: 5.78New Zealand Nationals 2022: 5.01Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2022: 5.71Tassie Summer 2023: 6.20Turning in Townsville 2023: 5.95Melbourne Summer 2023: 6.33Guildford Winter 2023: 5.15Brent Cross Winter 2023: 5.10Flatåsen Open 2023: 6.17Energy Cube Konin 2023: 5.95Wiltshire Spring 2023: 5.34Washtenaw Spring B 2023: 5.79PBs in Palisades 2023: 5.57Cape Cod 2023: 5.84Norwegian Championship 2023: 5.59Weston-super-Mare Spring 2023: 5.70Stevenage May 2023: 5.47Hampshire Spring 2023: 5.52Dutch Open 2023: 6.24Stevenage June 2023: 4.80Irish Championship 2023: 6.21Isle of Wight Summer 2023: 5.47Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 6.09Mind Sports Olympiad Cubing 2023: 6.23Kent Autumn 2023: 5.43Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 6.39Lyttelton Spring 2023: 5.90New Zealand Nationals 2023: 5.37Cubing at The Cube 2024: 5.59Tassie Summer 2024: 5.98Melbourne Summer 2024: 6.02Brisbane Summer 2024: 5.88Going Back to the Gong 2024: 5.44Lyttelton Summer 2024: 5.59Te Atatū Newcomers Open 2024: 5.84Beachside Auckland 2024: 5.05Fast Solves in Fendalton 2024: 5.73Rubik's Irish Championship 2024: 5.55Australian Nationals 2024: 5.68NZ North Island Championship 2024: 5.07South Auckland Side Events 2024: 5.75New Zealand Cubing Decathlon 2024: 5.64Springing into Auckland 2024: 6.14Hasty Hastings 2024: 5.06Max Speed Milford 2024: 5.73New Zealand Nationals 2024: 5.58Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2024: 5.21Tassie Summer 2025: 5.38Adelaide Summer 2025: 5.98A New Year in Auckland 2025: 5.54Sqauckland 2025: 5.47Twisting in Titirangi 2025: 5.81Auckland Autumn 2025: 5.05NSW State Championship 2025: 5.59Puzzling Papatoetoe 2025: 5.09Milford Winter Warm Up 2025: 5.70Warm Up Seattle 2025: 6.60Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 4.812x2 in Tāmaki Makaurau 2025: 5.49Solve Well in Wellington 2025: 4.76Beachside Auckland 2025: 4.96Australian Nationals 2025: 5.12New Zealand Cubing Decathlon 2025: 5.36Samoa Nationals 2025: 5.91Fiji Nationals 2025: 5.55Drury Summer 2025: 5.51New Zealand Nationals 2025: 5.67Cubing at The Cube 2026: 5.04Tassie Summer 2026: 5.48Guangdong Open - Revival & Rival 2026: 5.34Solving in Sale 2026: 4.87Wagga Autumn 2026: 5.77Spark Melbourne Autumn Saturday 2026: 6.34Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 6.004.5925.8611 Oct 201416 Jul 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-4 3×3 single — 38 people have one; it is 0.59 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 one-handed single — 4 people have one; it is 1.82 away.

Targets move as he improves.