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Joel Keenan

Pyraminx · top 0.15% of 129,321 all-time · competing since February 2018 · 2018KEEN02

Joel Keenan has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.20, set at Lincolnshire Summer 2024, puts him in the top 0.15% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6th in the United Kingdom. Until January 2018, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 45 competitions since February 2018, he has put 2,318 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 38.67 in February 2018 to 8.92, a 77% improvement. Joel has entered 45 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.15% of 129,321 all-time
1.20
signature single · Lincolnshire Summer 2024
2,318
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 74% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
Pyraminx1.202.46
top 0.15%6 / 3,656
Skewb1.914.70
top 1.2%29 / 2,421
2×21.322.63
top 1.4%114 / 4,895
Clock4.566.06
top 3.4%52 / 1,232
3×38.9211.17
top 4.7%363 / 6,689
4×434.0639.04
top 5.9%141 / 2,071
Square-111.1415.44
top 8.3%84 / 778
3×3 one-handed15.1519.23
top 8.4%167 / 1,851
5×51:07.411:15.61
top 9.9%128 / 1,151
Megaminx1:09.101:18.14
top 15.1%187 / 966
6×62:13.392:17.03
top 17.0%107 / 548
7×73:29.663:48.46
top 19.6%92 / 459
3×3 Fewest Moves53 moves—
top 85.4%333 / 372

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

Manchester Open 2018: 38.67Wakefield Open 2022: 15.87Farnworth Spring B 2022: 17.60Chester Spring 2022: 14.81Cheltenham Summer 2022: 17.93Lincoln Summer 2022: 17.80Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 19.68Essex Winter 2022: 13.40Lincolnshire Winter 2023: 14.77Bolton Spring 2023: 14.90Wiltshire Spring 2023: 13.31Wakefield Spring 2023: 13.00Stevenage May 2023: 14.66Wiltshire Summer 2023: 13.25Bolton Summer 2023: 11.54North Wales Summer 2023: 11.21Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 12.11Liverpool Winter 2023: 13.82Manchester Winter 2024: 10.54Manchester Spring 2024: 10.82Bolton Spring 2024: 11.04Crewe Spring 2024: 11.06Manchester June 2024: 11.58Bolton Summer 2024: 11.76Rubik's Irish Championship 2024: 10.58Lincolnshire Summer 2024: 8.92Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 12.49Crewe Favourites 2025: 9.29Manchester January 2025: 9.83Crewe Winter 2025: 10.02Manchester February 2025: 12.11Manchester Spring 2025: 10.58Crewe Spring 2025: 9.98Rubik's Irish Championship 2025: 10.74Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 10.28Manchester October 2025: 10.59Manchester Favourites II 2026: 10.42Crewe Spring 2026: 11.04Bolton Spring 2026: 10.24Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 10.40Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 9.298.9238.6717 Feb 201828 Aug 2026

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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.20 away.
  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.91 away.

Targets move as he improves.