Sunday 6 September 2026 Rebuilt nightly from the WCA's official results · export of 6 September 2026 · About
The Middle Three
People → Ireland → Hugo McGrath

People · Ireland

Hugo McGrath

Skewb · top 0.68% of 73,281 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022MCGR02

Hugo McGrath has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 1.67, set at Gort-a Go Fast 2025, puts him in the top 0.68% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5th in Ireland. Until September 2015, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 44 competitions since July 2022, he has put 2,472 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 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. His 2×2 best has come down from 2.75 in July 2022 to 1.53, a 44% improvement. Hugo has entered 44 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 0.68% of 73,281 all-time
1.67
signature single · Gort-a Go Fast 2025
2,472
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 standingIreland
Skewb1.672.85
top 0.68%5 / 624
Pyraminx2.084.35
top 1.3%19 / 911
2×21.533.04
top 2.3%46 / 1,163
3×39.6911.47
top 6.6%108 / 1,427
4×435.6743.03
top 7.3%46 / 579
Clock6.288.84
top 8.2%38 / 331
5×51:05.471:09.61
top 8.7%27 / 296
6×62:28.312:58.58
top 24.7%37 / 142
3×3 one-handed24.9831.88
top 34.2%129 / 448
Megaminx1:54.862:08.69
top 43.1%124 / 283
Square-128.7737.52
top 47.1%97 / 194
7×76:33.89—
top 75.2%85 / 108

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

Don't DNF Dublin 2022: 2.75Cubing with the Cats Sunday 2022: 3.97Dublin Open Saturday 2022: 2.97Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2022: 3.83Irish Championship 2022: 4.80Tuam Open Sunday 2022: 2.54Cork Spring 2023: 2.06Irish Championship 2023: 3.21Solving by the Shannon 2023: 2.59Cubing with the Cats Sunday 2023: 3.11Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2023: 4.07Meath Autumn 2023: 2.75Don't Fail Kinsale 2023: 2.51Rebel County Cubing 2024: 3.89Corduff Cubing Saturday 2024: 2.09Cork Spring 2024: 1.53UCD Cube Days 2024: 3.1850 and Counting Ireland 2024: 2.93Turnin' in Termonfeckin Saturday 2024: 2.02Cubing with the Kilkenny Cats Saturday 2024: 2.63Dublin Summer Solving 2024: 2.58Meath for Speed 2024: 1.85Don't Fail Kinsale 2024: 3.33Dublin Winter Solving 2025: 2.40Marble City Cubing IE 2025: 2.32Cork Spring 2025: 2.29Gort-a Go Fast 2025: 2.66Let's Go Carlow 2025: 2.33UCD Cube Days 2025: 2.07Don't Go Slow in Wicklow 2025: 1.98Castletown Showdown 2025: 1.99Rubik's Irish Championship 2025: 2.38Dublin Autumn Solving 2025: 2.80Termonfeckin Fast 2025: 2.74Re-Laois the Cubers 2025: 2.10Solving by the Barrow 2025: 2.55Leopardstown Cube Races 2025: 3.40Lets Go Carlow 2026: 2.66Solving Ferry Fast Rosslare 2026: 2.28UCD Cube Days 2026: 1.80Rubik's Irish Championship 2026: 2.46Éire 100 2026: 2.481.534.802 Jul 202222 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.67 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.08 away.

Targets move as he improves.