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Donnacha Ryan

3×3 · top 6.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2023 · 2023RYAN04

Donnacha Ryan has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.50, set at Don't Go Slow in Wicklow 2026, puts him in the top 6.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 92nd in Ireland. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since May 2023, he has put 739 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% 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 26.82 in May 2023 to 9.50, a 65% improvement. Donnacha has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.1% of 284,439 all-time
9.50
signature single · Don't Go Slow in Wicklow 2026
739
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 81% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIreland
3×39.5011.73
top 6.1%92 / 1,427
2×22.543.91
top 9.3%135 / 1,163
4×438.2745.80
top 10.1%61 / 579
Pyraminx4.9511.77
top 12.9%164 / 911
Clock8.459.48
top 17.3%65 / 331
5×51:22.281:35.43
top 20.9%66 / 296
3×3 one-handed21.8025.58
top 25.5%89 / 448
Skewb7.1712.21
top 35.0%230 / 624

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

It's a Long Way to Tipperary 2023: 26.82Irish Championship 2023: 23.34Solving by the Shannon 2023: 16.05Cubing with the Cats Saturday 2023: 15.09Dublin Summer Solving Saturday 2023: 12.53Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2023: 13.51Meath Autumn 2023: 13.83Rebel County Cubing 2024: 13.84Corduff Cubing Sunday 2024: 11.88Turnin' Offaly Fast 2024: 12.8950 and Counting Ireland 2024: 12.69Please Be Qualified Ireland 2024: 13.16Turnin' in Termonfeckin Sunday 2024: 13.18Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 12.42Dublin Winter Solving 2025: 12.15Gort-a Go Fast 2025: 11.46UCD Cube Days 2025: 11.80Castletown Showdown 2025: 11.68PBs in Phibblestown 2025: 11.19Rubik's Irish Championship 2025: 11.21Dublin Autumn Solving 2025: 11.70Re-Laois the Cubers 2025: 10.06Cork Spring 2026: 9.54Gort-a Go Fast 2026: 10.64Don't Go Slow in Wicklow 2026: 9.50Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 11.409.5026.8213 May 202316 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.50 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.54 away.

Targets move as he improves.