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Daithí O'Connor

2×2 · top 0.87% of 186,767 all-time · competing since November 2021 · 2021OCON01

Daithí O'Connor has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.14, set at Let's Go Carlow 2025, puts him in the top 0.87% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 19th in Ireland. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 42 competitions since November 2021, he has put 2,301 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.68 in November 2021 to 8.83, a 72% improvement. He has entered 42 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.87% of 186,767 all-time
1.14
signature single · Let's Go Carlow 2025
2,301
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIreland
2×21.143.77
top 0.87%19 / 1,163
Square-18.1111.08
top 3.2%12 / 194
3×38.8310.80
top 4.5%68 / 1,427
Pyraminx3.276.12
top 4.6%67 / 911
4×433.4538.44
top 5.3%35 / 579
5×51:02.881:13.02
top 7.1%24 / 296
Clock6.078.13
top 7.5%37 / 331
Skewb3.724.79
top 9.1%63 / 624
3×3 one-handed15.5821.62
top 9.3%31 / 448
Megaminx1:21.031:29.67
top 22.5%70 / 283
6×62:24.992:40.90
top 23.1%35 / 142
7×74:18.384:30.80
top 37.1%38 / 108
3×3 Fewest Moves58 moves—
early days — 2 solves82 / 88

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

Tuam Re-Open Saturday 2021: 31.68Don't DNF Dublin 2022: 16.72Cubing with the Cats Sunday 2022: 20.07Dublin Open Sunday 2022: 16.50Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2022: 16.86Irish Championship 2022: 14.13Cork Spring 2023: 16.75Don't Lockup Loch Garman 2023: 15.29It's a Long Way to Tipperary 2023: 15.34Irish Championship 2023: 12.45Cubing with the Cats Saturday 2023: 12.54Dublin Summer Solving Sunday 2023: 15.01Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2023: 12.49Meath Autumn 2023: 14.95Don't Fail Kinsale 2023: 13.14Corduff Cubing Sunday 2024: 11.51Turnin' Offaly Fast 2024: 13.46Please Be Qualified Ireland 2024: 13.46Rubik's Irish Championship 2024: 12.83Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 11.75Cubing with the Kilkenny Cats Saturday 2024: 11.68Dublin Summer Solving 2024: 11.61Don't Fail Kinsale 2024: 10.48Marble City Cubing IE 2025: 11.16Let's Go Carlow 2025: 10.50UCD Cube Days 2025: 9.60It's a Long Way to Tipperary 2025: 9.90Castletown Showdown 2025: 10.31Cubing with the Kilkenny Cats 2025: 10.18Rubik's Irish Championship 2025: 10.01Dublin Autumn Solving 2025: 11.35Solving by the Barrow 2025: 10.00Leopardstown Cube Races 2025: 10.59Lets Go Carlow 2026: 8.83Cork Spring 2026: 9.03Solving Ferry Fast Rosslare 2026: 10.87Re-Laois the Cubers 2026: 10.54Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 10.41Rubik's Irish Championship 2026: 9.82Éire 100 2026: 9.758.8331.6827 Nov 202122 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.

  • Ben Timmons — met in 467 rounds, finished ahead 49 times
  • Jack Corr — met in 384 rounds, finished ahead 186 times
  • Rían Burke — met in 372 rounds, finished ahead 21 times

Next targets

  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.14 away.
  • A sub-8 Square-1 single — 766 people have one; it is 0.11 away.

Targets move as he improves.