People · Australia
Darcy Way
Megaminx · top 0.34% of 34,786 all-time · competing since October 2018 · 2018WAYD01
Darcy Way has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the Megaminx: a personal-best single of 31.60, set at Spark Melbourne February 2025, puts him in the top 0.34% of the 34,786 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in Australia. Until May 2017, no official Megaminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since October 2018, he has put 900 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 81% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.72 in October 2018 to 6.65, a 32% improvement. Darcy has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Australia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Megaminx | 31.60 | 36.82 | top 0.34% | 4 / 1,277 | |
| 3×3 | 6.65 | 8.73 | top 0.98% | 109 / 11,709 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 10.95 | 17.48 | top 1.8% | 46 / 2,659 | |
| 2×2 | 1.66 | 2.88 | top 2.9% | 233 / 8,567 | |
| 4×4 | 34.67 | 40.54 | top 6.4% | 166 / 3,051 | |
| 5×5 | 1:05.07 | 1:16.29 | top 8.4% | 115 / 1,356 | |
| Skewb | 4.38 | 9.15 | top 13.6% | 352 / 3,534 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.07 | 6.81 | top 13.6% | 649 / 5,993 | |
| 6×6 | 2:12.85 | 2:27.54 | top 16.8% | 97 / 641 | |
| 7×7 | 3:31.99 | 4:03.77 | top 20.4% | 92 / 523 | |
| Square-1 | 19.42 | 28.11 | top 26.6% | 253 / 899 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 17 Feb 2024Three personal bests in one day at Eastside Side Events 2024.
- 15 Oct 2022Three personal bests in one day at Koalafication Melbourne 2022.
- 23 Jan 2021Seven personal bests in one day at Melbourne Summer 2021.
- 25 Jan 2020Ten personal bests in one day at Melbourne Summer 2020.
- 26 Jan 2019Seven personal bests in one day at Melbourne Summer 2019.
- 27 Oct 2018First competition: St Kevin's College Spring 2018. A 9.72 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Kooyong Clock Clash 2025 · 16 Aug 2025
- Spark Melbourne July 2025 · 26 Jul 2025
- VIC Side State Championship 2025 · 14 Jun 2025
- Spark Melbourne February 2025 · 22 Feb 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Kew Clock Clash 2024 · 14 Sep 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Kensington May Upstairs 2024 · 11 May 2024
- Altona Algorithms 2024 · 2 Mar 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Eastside Side Events 2024 · 17 Feb 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Don't Inverloch Up 2024 · 10 Feb 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Melbourne Summer 2024 · 19 Jan 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Side N Blind Narre Warren 2023 · 3 Jun 2023 — 1 personal best set
- February Fitzroy Fun 2023 · 11 Feb 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Melbourne Summer 2023 · 20 Jan 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2022 · 15 Dec 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Melbourne Cube Days 2022 · 12 Nov 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Koalafication Melbourne 2022 · 15 Oct 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Victorian Open 2022 · 4 Jun 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Altona Algorithms Attempt 2 2021 · 17 Apr 2021
- Solving in Sale 2021 · 10 Apr 2021 — 1 personal best set
- Melbourne Summer 2021 · 23 Jan 2021 — 7 personal bests set
- Melbourne Summer 2020 · 25 Jan 2020 — 10 personal bests set
- Melbourne Summer 2019 · 26 Jan 2019 — 7 personal bests set
- St Kevin's College Spring 2018 · 27 Oct 2018
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.
- Myles Jarman — met in 165 rounds, finished ahead 88 times
- David Epstein — met in 153 rounds, finished ahead 30 times
- Phoenix Patterson — met in 151 rounds, finished ahead 50 times
Next targets
- A sub-30 Megaminx single — 75 people have one; it is 1.60 away.
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.65 away.
Targets move as he improves.