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James Molloy

2×2 · top 0.54% of 186,767 all-time · competing since July 2011 · 2011MOLL01

James Molloy has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.99, set at UK Championship 2017, puts him in the top 0.54% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 45th in the United Kingdom. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 130 competitions since July 2011, he has put 9,063 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.78 in July 2011 to 7.28, a 71% improvement. James has entered 130 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.54% of 186,767 all-time
0.99
signature single · UK Championship 2017
9,063
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
2×20.993.18
top 0.54%45 / 4,895
3×37.289.85
top 1.7%126 / 6,689
Clock4.386.84
top 3.1%47 / 1,232
4×430.7037.34
top 3.3%78 / 2,071
Skewb2.684.80
top 3.5%81 / 2,421
3×3 Fewest Moves24 moves30.33
top 4.0%25 / 372
Pyraminx3.186.54
top 4.3%168 / 3,656
5×557.781:07.95
top 4.4%61 / 1,151
3×3 one-handed13.0617.51
top 4.5%85 / 1,851
Square-110.3114.40
top 6.7%65 / 778
6×61:50.892:03.12
top 7.5%50 / 548
Megaminx55.741:05.55
top 7.8%99 / 966
7×73:04.493:13.75
top 11.8%58 / 459
3×3 blindfolded1:06.631:36.53
top 15.1%74 / 311
3×3 Multi-Blind11 of 13 cubes · 57:17—
top 21.0%42 / 126
4×4 blindfolded5:58.53—
top 28.7%35 / 84
5×5 blindfolded22:05.00—
early days — 1 solve38 / 50

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 Summer Open 2011: 24.78UK Open 2011: 17.30Norwegian Championship 2012: 17.05Rapid Dash Open 2012: 15.59Weston-super-Mare 2012: 15.02N8W8 Summer 2012: 16.61European Rubik's Cube Championship 2012: 14.06UK Open 2012: 14.63Edinburgh Open 2013: 14.13Leicester Open 2013: 13.00Nottingham Open 2013: 14.86World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 15.68Berkeley Summer 2013: 12.13N8W8 Summer 2013: 12.78Guildford Open 2013: 12.34Cuthberts Open 2013: 11.59Nottingham Open 2014: 13.25Welwyn Garden City Open 2014: 12.11Oxford Open 2014: 10.15Nottingham Summer 2014: 9.93Welcome To Cambridge 2014: 9.86Rubik's Cube European Championships 2014: 11.51ABHC 2014: 11.52Cuthberts Open 2014: 11.02UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2014: 10.19Oxford Winter 2014: 10.50Harrow Spring 2015: 8.68Edinburgh Spring 2015: 9.57Welcome Back to Guildford 2015: 10.57Welwyn Garden City 2015: 9.83The Glorious North 2015: 11.43August Bank Holiday Competition 2015: 9.09Cuthberts Open 2015: 10.50UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 10.20Welcome Thay Cambridge 2015: 9.87Manchester Open 2016: 8.99Exeter Open 2016: 10.15North London Open 2016: 8.31Irish Championship 2016: 7.77European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 10.82Macclesfield Open 2016: 9.64August Bank Holiday Competition 2016: 10.36Guildford Open 2016: 9.68UK Championship 2016: 9.84Finnish Championship 2016: 9.14Birmingham Open 2016: 9.62Manchester Open 2017: 8.87Hamburg Open 2017: 10.87Peterborough Open 2017: 8.87Newcastle-under-Lyme Open 2017: 10.29San Marino Open 2017: 9.82Crawley Open 2017: 9.12London Open 2017: 10.29World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 10.19Swiss Open 2017: 11.68August Bank Holiday Competition 2017: 10.05Guildford Open 2017: 9.83Italian Open 2017: 9.01Spanish Championship 2017: 10.37UK Championship 2017: 9.62Weston-super-Mare Open 2017: 10.19Liechtenstein Open 2018: 10.68Welsh Open 2018: 9.80Manchester Open 2018: 9.26Guildford Open 2018: 8.25High Wycombe Open 2018: 7.28Lisboa Open 2018: 10.16Hastings Open 2018: 9.83Icelandic Nationals 2018: 10.27Peterborough Open 2018: 9.64WCA European Championship 2018: 8.73August Bank Holiday Competition 2018: 9.01Stratford-upon-Avon Open 2018: 9.39UK Championship 2018: 10.65Luxembourg Open 2018: 9.77Weston-super-Mare Open 2018: 9.50Cambridge Open 2018: 10.30Fontwell Open 2019: 9.52Manchester Open 2019: 7.79Welsh Open 2019: 8.89Denmark & Friends 2019: 10.42Chester Open 2019: 9.90Cork Open 2019: 9.63Lincoln Open 2019: 9.01London Open 2019: 8.25Oceania 10th Anniversary 2019: 10.29Warm Up Canberra 2019: 8.96Warm Up Sydney 2019: 8.90WCA World Championship 2019: 9.46Leeds Open 2019: 9.65August Bank Holiday Celebration 2019: 7.99UK Championship 2019: 9.65Weston-super-Mare Open 2019: 10.89Guildford Open 2020: 9.37Fontwell Open 2020: 9.18Doncaster Open 2020: 9.87Manchester Open 2020: 9.36Wakefield Open 2022: 9.58Weston-super-Mare Open 2022: 8.87Stevenage Spring 2022: 9.87Stevenage Summer 2022: 8.22Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 10.16Lincoln Summer 2022: 9.85Droitwich Spa Autumn 2022: 9.61Stevenage Autumn A 2022: 8.73Chippenham Autumn 2022: 8.60Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 9.39Irish Championship 2022: 9.88East London Autumn 2022: 9.84Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2022: 9.57Essex Winter 2022: 10.80Stevenage January 2023: 8.65Guildford Winter 2023: 9.55Brent Cross Winter 2023: 9.09Weston-super-Mare Spring 2023: 9.36Stevenage May 2023: 9.337.2824.7830 Jul 201120 May 2023

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.28 away.
  • A sub-4 Clock single — 741 people have one; it is 0.38 away.

Targets move as he improves.