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Greg Austin

3×3 · top 7.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2006 · 2006AUST01

Greg Austin has been competing for 20 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.88, set at Nottingham Open 2014, puts him in the top 7.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 521st in the United Kingdom. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 48 competitions since November 2006, he has put 1,861 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 80% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 39.20 in November 2006 to 9.88, a 75% improvement. Greg has entered 48 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.1% of 284,439 all-time
9.88
signature single · Nottingham Open 2014
1,861
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 80% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×39.8813.12
top 7.1%521 / 6,689
Skewb4.2410.05
top 12.6%285 / 2,421
2×23.036.01
top 14.6%873 / 4,895
5×51:22.301:28.13
top 21.0%280 / 1,151
Pyraminx6.239.68
top 21.7%846 / 3,656
4×452.211:01.27
top 27.4%618 / 2,071
3×3 one-handed23.3828.50
top 29.8%541 / 1,851
6×62:56.933:23.75
top 39.6%238 / 548
Square-125.6251.35
top 40.5%359 / 778
7×74:34.484:37.76
top 42.6%205 / 459
Megaminx2:17.282:45.37
top 55.0%627 / 966
Clock17.0220.43
top 55.5%719 / 1,232
3×3 Fewest Moves49 moves—
top 76.8%300 / 372
3×3 blindfolded9:07.04—
early days — 1 solve309 / 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

UK Open 2006: 39.20German Open 2007: 18.41Dutch Open 2007: 15.59UK Open 2007: 18.28Belgian Open 2008: 16.28French Open 2008: 14.86German Open 2008: 13.86UK Open 2008: 15.36German Open 2009: 15.22UK Masters 2009: 15.83UK Open 2009: 14.71German Open 2010: 16.81UK Open 2010: 13.13UK Open 2012: 20.21Edinburgh Open 2013: 14.94Leicester Open 2013: 16.15Northern Irish Open 2013: 13.52Nottingham Open 2013: 13.91Cambridge Open 2013: 11.83Guildford Open 2013: 12.67Cuthberts Open 2013: 9.99UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 11.91Nottingham Open 2014: 9.88Welwyn Garden City Open 2014: 11.33Oxford Open 2014: 10.38Nottingham Summer 2014: 12.07Welcome To Cambridge 2014: 11.72Rubik's Cube European Championships 2014: 14.07ABHC 2014: 11.78UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2014: 12.75Oxford Winter 2014: 12.68Welcome Back to Guildford 2015: 11.61Welwyn Garden City 2015: 11.71Irish Championship 2015: 12.82The Glorious North 2015: 10.38August Bank Holiday Competition 2015: 11.73UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 12.09Exeter Open 2016: 12.53Irish Championship 2016: 12.95World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 10.38Birmingham Spring 2025: 12.24Peterborough Odd Day 2025: 12.839.8839.2018 Nov 200611 May 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.88 away.
  • A sub-4 Skewb single — 7,977 people have one; it is 0.24 away.

Targets move as he improves.