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Holly Swaine

3×3 · top 41.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2018 · 2018SWAI01

Holly Swaine has been competing for 8 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 20.66, set at Stevenage July 2023, puts her in the top 41.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,891st in the United Kingdom. Across 18 competitions since March 2018, she has put 220 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 71% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 33.31 in March 2018 to 20.66, a 38% improvement. Holly has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 41.8% of 284,439 all-time
20.66
signature single · Stevenage July 2023
220
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 71% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×320.6623.56
top 41.8%2,891 / 6,689
2×26.869.24
top 59.3%3,058 / 4,895
4×41:40.67
early days — 2 solves1,584 / 2,071
Pyraminx12.8617.14
top 72.2%2,817 / 3,656
Skewb17.6420.31
top 85.5%2,096 / 2,421

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

Guildford Open 2018: 33.31High Wycombe Open 2018: 24.43Stratford-upon-Avon Open 2018: 29.19UK Championship 2018: 26.90Fontwell Open 2019: 25.89UK Championship 2019: 20.78Stevenage Summer 2022: 27.94Norwich Summer 2022: 28.47August Bank Holiday Cheltenham 2022: 25.72Stevenage Autumn B 2022: 27.78Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 25.33Essex Winter 2022: 22.36Essex Spring 2023: 24.67Stevenage June 2023: 25.90Stevenage July 2023: 20.66Norwich Summer 2023: 25.07Kewbz UK Open 2024: 21.82Stevenage April 2025: 22.2920.6633.3117 Mar 201819 Apr 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 0.66 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 0.86 away.

Targets move as she improves.