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Gerard McGinley

3×3 · top 0.19% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2019 · 2019MCGI01

Gerard McGinley has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.30, set at Adelaide Summer 2026, puts him in the top 0.19% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 27th in Australia. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 40 competitions since January 2019, he has put 1,455 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.59 in January 2019 to 5.30, a 78% improvement. Gerard has entered 40 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.19% of 284,439 all-time
5.30
signature single · Adelaide Summer 2026
1,455
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×35.308.90
top 0.19%27 / 11,709
2×20.771.95
top 0.2%41 / 8,567
3×3 Fewest Moves19 moves21.67
top 0.45%3 / 468
Pyraminx2.544.83
top 2.3%111 / 5,993
Clock4.788.04
top 3.9%52 / 1,095
Skewb3.354.52
top 6.9%195 / 3,534
4×435.4537.09
top 7.1%184 / 3,051
3×3 one-handed14.7818.03
top 7.7%179 / 2,659
Megaminx56.311:03.14
top 8.0%101 / 1,277
Square-111.9413.15
top 9.8%99 / 899
5×51:10.061:15.55
top 11.6%155 / 1,356
3×3 blindfolded1:18.401:41.92
top 19.0%98 / 394
6×62:36.982:41.83
top 29.2%173 / 641
7×74:11.204:22.60
top 34.7%164 / 523
4×4 blindfolded12:50.00—
early days — 1 solve75 / 96
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 3 cubes · 17:42—
early days — 1 solve150 / 180

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

Adelaide Summer 2019: 23.59Koalafication Adelaide 2019: 13.42WCA World Championship 2019: 15.47Adelaide Summer 2020: 14.43Adelaide Twin Sunday 2021: 12.86SA State Championship 2021: 11.37Adelaide Summer 2022: 10.67Adelaide Autumn 2022: 9.68Victorian Open 2022: 10.18Clare Valley Cubing 2022: 10.02South Australian Open 2022: 8.69Northside Spring Sunday 2022: 9.18Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2022: 8.02Adelaide Summer 2023: 8.25Adelaide Autumn 2023: 9.14Playford Cubing 2023: 7.89Adelaide Summer 2024: 8.81Half Turns in Hallett Cove 2024: 8.75Australian Nationals 2024: 8.49Unley Spring 2024: 7.36Northern Adelaide Cubing 2024: 7.82CuBeaulieu Craze 2024: 8.28SA State Championship 2025: 7.83Singapore Megaland July 2025: 7.84Kubing in Klemzig 2025: 8.59Marino Madness 2025: 7.55Adelaide Summer 2026: 5.305.3023.5919 Jan 201910 Jan 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.30 away.

Targets move as he improves.