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Eoin Ryan-Preston

2×2 · top 2.4% of 186,767 all-time · competing since November 2019 · 2019RYAN03

Eoin Ryan-Preston has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.56, set at Irish Championship 2023, puts him in the top 2.4% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 49th in Ireland. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since November 2019, he has put 631 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 58.00 in November 2019 to 13.22, a 77% improvement. Eoin has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 2.4% of 186,767 all-time
1.56
signature single · Irish Championship 2023
631
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIreland
2×21.564.10
top 2.4%49 / 1,163
Pyraminx3.766.54
top 6.5%90 / 911
3×313.2216.07
top 18.2%252 / 1,427
Skewb5.418.30
top 21.3%149 / 624
4×41:01.811:10.99
top 38.4%183 / 579
3×3 one-handed29.3550.38
top 45.2%174 / 448
5×52:17.872:26.92
top 59.9%175 / 296
6×64:54.20
early days — 1 solve116 / 142
Clock1:01.83
early days — 1 solve327 / 331

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

Every Event Éire 2019: 58.00Don't DNF Dublin 2020: 27.47Tuam Re-Open Saturday 2021: 16.14Cubing with the Cats Sunday 2022: 15.79Dublin Open Saturday 2022: 15.39Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2022: 16.65Irish Championship 2022: 17.67Cork Spring 2023: 16.04Don't Lockup Loch Garman 2023: 16.01Irish Championship 2023: 15.01Cubing with the Cats Sunday 2023: 16.23Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2023: 14.46Don't Fail Kinsale 2023: 13.27Rebel County Cubing 2024: 14.26Cork Spring 2024: 15.96Turnin' Offaly Fast 2024: 13.29Marble City Cubing IE 2025: 13.2213.2258.002 Nov 201915 Feb 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.

  • Ben Timmons — met in 129 rounds, finished ahead 15 times
  • CJ Furey — met in 113 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
  • William Carey — met in 106 rounds, finished ahead 12 times

Next targets

  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.56 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.76 away.

Targets move as he improves.