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Edgar Holmes

3×3 · top 3.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2025 · 2025HOLM05

Edgar Holmes has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.27, set at Kewbz UK Championship 2026, puts him in the top 3.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 268th in the United Kingdom. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since June 2025, he has put 786 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 52% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.07 in June 2025 to 8.27, a 37% improvement. Edgar has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.3% of 284,439 all-time
8.27
signature single · Kewbz UK Championship 2026
786
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×38.279.78
top 3.3%268 / 6,689
Pyraminx2.955.25
top 3.5%146 / 3,656
2×22.013.29
top 4.8%351 / 4,895
4×436.7845.25
top 8.5%200 / 2,071
3×3 one-handed15.5320.10
top 9.2%186 / 1,851
5×51:08.721:18.22
top 10.7%144 / 1,151
Square-112.7114.88
top 11.3%113 / 778
Megaminx1:07.161:27.38
top 14.0%177 / 966
Skewb4.756.23
top 16.3%383 / 2,421
Clock10.1712.45
top 25.9%351 / 1,232
6×62:42.912:59.46
top 32.4%188 / 548
7×74:44.785:00.42
top 46.1%222 / 459
3×3 blindfolded6:36.88—
early days — 2 solves296 / 311

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

Manchester June 2025: 13.07Newcastle upon Tyne Summer 2025: 12.48Manchester Favourites I 2025: 10.46Manchester October 2025: 8.71Stevenage 10th Anniversary 2025: 9.11Leicestershire Autumn 2025: 8.30Weston-super-Mare Winter 2026: 9.28Bolton Spring 2026: 10.16Leeds Spring 2026: 9.03Sheffield Spring 2026: 9.26Wakefield Summer 2026: 8.75Manchester Cubing League - Final 2026: 9.97Newcastle upon Tyne Summer 2026: 9.15Bristol August 2026: 8.55York Summer 2026: 8.75Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 8.278.2713.0715 Jun 202528 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.27 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.95 away.

Targets move as he improves.