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Grace Holmes
Pyraminx · top 7.0% of 129,321 all-time · competing since March 2023 · 2023HOLM04
Grace Holmes has been competing for 4 years. Her best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 3.87, set at Turnin' in Termonfeckin Saturday 2024, puts her in the top 7.0% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 96th in Ireland. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since March 2023, she has put 400 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 93% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 29.24 in March 2023 to 11.02, a 62% improvement. Grace has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Ireland | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 3.87 | 8.95 | top 7.0% | 96 / 911 | |
| Skewb | 3.90 | 15.58 | top 10.2% | 73 / 624 | |
| 3×3 | 11.02 | 16.22 | top 10.5% | 161 / 1,427 | |
| 2×2 | 2.94 | 6.08 | top 13.6% | 194 / 1,163 | |
| 4×4 | 1:07.57 | 1:21.06 | top 44.5% | 218 / 579 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 26 Apr 2025First sub-15 3×3: 14.50 at Don't Go Slow in Wicklow 2025.
- 12 Oct 2024Three personal bests in one day at Meath for Speed 2024.
- 18 Feb 2024First sub-20 3×3: 18.71 at Corduff Cubing Sunday 2024.
- 13 May 2023Three personal bests in one day at It's a Long Way to Tipperary 2023.
- 11 Mar 2023First competition: Turnin' in Termonfeckin Saturday 2023. A 29.24 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Rubik's Irish Championship 2026 · 24 Jul 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Termonfeckin Fast 2025 · 11 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's Irish Championship 2025 · 15 Aug 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Dublin Summer Solving 2025 · 21 Jun 2025
- Don't Go Slow in Wicklow 2025 · 26 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Let's Go Carlow 2025 · 29 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Meath for Speed 2024 · 12 Oct 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Dublin Summer Solving 2024 · 17 Aug 2024
- Rubik's Irish Championship 2024 · 5 Jul 2024
- Turnin' in Termonfeckin Saturday 2024 · 1 Jun 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Corduff Cubing Sunday 2024 · 18 Feb 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Don't Fail Kinsale 2023 · 2 Dec 2023
- Meath Autumn 2023 · 14 Oct 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Dublin Summer Solving Saturday 2023 · 19 Aug 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Irish Championship 2023 · 7 Jul 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- It's a Long Way to Tipperary 2023 · 13 May 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Turnin' in Termonfeckin Saturday 2023 · 11 Mar 2023
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.
- Miłosz Andzel — met in 67 rounds, never finished ahead
- Ben Timmons — met in 66 rounds, never finished ahead
- Oisín Olwill — met in 65 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
Next targets
- A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.87 away.
- A sub-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.90 away.
Targets move as she improves.