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Christiaan Botha

Pyraminx · top 3.5% of 129,321 all-time · competing since May 2019 · 2019BOTH02

Christiaan Botha has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.97, set at Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Hotel Q1 2025, puts him in the top 3.5% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 17th in South Africa. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since May 2019, he has put 702 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 87% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.78 in May 2019 to 11.13, a 57% improvement. Christiaan has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 3.5% of 129,321 all-time
2.97
signature single · Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Hotel Q1 2025
702
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 87% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
Pyraminx2.975.80
top 3.5%17 / 946
2×22.253.62
top 6.6%58 / 1,510
Skewb3.447.29
top 7.3%27 / 438
3×311.1313.00
top 10.9%117 / 2,164
3×3 one-handed21.2022.83
top 23.8%67 / 467
4×451.261:01.76
top 26.3%83 / 491
Megaminx1:38.991:53.45
top 34.0%56 / 266
5×51:49.862:03.63
top 42.5%64 / 221
Clock16.1420.61
top 52.4%74 / 148
3×3 Fewest Moves52 moves—
early days — 1 solve40 / 53

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

Arnold Classic Africa 2019: 25.78Cape Town Summer 2020: 16.13Gauteng Autumn 2022: 15.06Arnold Classic Africa 2022: 12.30Inni-Horie-Fees Speedcubing 2022: 11.29Just Cube Joburg 2022: 13.99CubingZA National Championship 2023: 11.13Inni-Horie-Fees 2024: 14.47Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Hotel Q1 2025: 12.29CuBeaulieu Craze Comeback 2025: 11.70CubingZA Nationals 2025: 11.85Beginner & Blind Johannesburg 2025: 11.89Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Q2 2025: 14.94Cubestuff Centurion Q3 2025: 11.89Menlo Cubing Open 2025: 13.7811.1325.7817 May 201927 Sep 2025

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-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.97 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.25 away.

Targets move as he improves.