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Gemma Tolhurst

2×2 · top 0.16% of 186,767 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022TOLH01

Gemma Tolhurst has been competing for 4 years. Her best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.74, set at NSW State Championship 2025, puts her in the top 0.16% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 33rd in Australia. Until November 2011, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 61 competitions since October 2022, she has put 2,251 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 41.16 in October 2022 to 9.78, a 76% improvement. Gemma has entered 61 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.16% of 186,767 all-time
0.74
signature single · NSW State Championship 2025
2,251
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
2×20.742.13
top 0.16%33 / 8,567
Pyraminx3.237.11
top 4.4%196 / 5,993
3×39.7812.29
top 6.9%636 / 11,709
Square-110.9513.08
top 7.9%81 / 899
Skewb3.677.48
top 8.8%232 / 3,534
3×3 one-handed15.8626.26
top 9.9%225 / 2,659
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves34.33
top 12.2%56 / 468
Megaminx1:09.081:15.12
top 15.1%186 / 1,277
4×445.5851.10
top 19.0%464 / 3,051
Clock8.8910.68
top 19.4%218 / 1,095
5×51:39.001:49.76
top 34.6%466 / 1,356
6×63:35.073:44.07
top 56.8%350 / 641
7×75:45.836:40.73
top 64.2%305 / 523

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

Koalafication Melbourne 2022: 41.16Melbourne Cube Days 2022: 32.25Melbourne Summer 2023: 21.55Brilliant Ballarat 2023: 18.54Speedcubing at Seaworks 2023: 18.40Apollo Bay Cubing 2023: 15.91St Oliver's Speedy Sunday 2023: 13.40Runaway Bay May Sunday 2023: 14.60Victorian Open 2023: 14.18Geelong Winter 2023: 13.39Melbourne Cubing for Kids Sunday 2023: 11.83Melbourne Cube Days 2023: 13.58Hampton Park Summer Sunday 2023: 12.06Melbourne Summer 2024: 11.32Altona Algorithms 2024: 12.87Brilliant Ballarat 2024: 13.80Cubing at The Game Expo 2024: 12.63Kensington May Sunday 2024: 12.66Australian Nationals 2024: 13.09Geelong Winter 2024: 12.31Spark Melbourne Spring Saturday 2024: 12.29Melbourne Cube Days 2024: 12.09Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2024: 11.70Cubing at The Cube 2025: 11.61Melbourne Summer 2025: 11.01Brilliant Ballarat 2025: 10.62Spark Melbourne February 2025: 11.22Queenspark O'Clock 2025: 11.38Crazy Cubing in Christchurch 2025: 9.98Solving in Sale 2025: 12.00NSW State Championship 2025: 11.03VIC State Championship 2025: 12.04Coping in Auckland 2025: 12.59NZ North Island Championship 2025: 13.10SA State Championship 2025: 11.61Spark Melbourne July 2025: 11.98Puzzling Pakenham Sunday 2025: 11.86Australian Nationals 2025: 12.27Apollo Bay Cubing 2025: 9.78Melbourne Cube Days 2025: 12.69New Zealand Nationals 2025: 10.72Adelaide Summer 2026: 11.31Melbourne Summer 2026: 10.99Don't Inverloch Up 2026: 12.09North-East Melbourne March Saturday 2026: 12.57West Melbourne Open 2026: 11.02Solving in Sale 2026: 12.84Spark Melbourne Autumn Sunday 2026: 12.49Brilliant Ballarat 2026: 12.73Australian Nationals 2026: 10.63Geelong Winter 2026: 11.069.7841.1615 Oct 202229 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.23 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.78 away.

Targets move as she improves.