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Joshua Christian Marais

3×3 one-handed · top 0.61% of 73,695 all-time · competing since May 2019 · 2019MARA05

Joshua Christian Marais has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 9.21, set at Rubik's WCA African Championship 2024, puts him in the top 0.61% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2nd in South Africa. Until November 2013, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since May 2019, he has put 1,114 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 71% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.71 in May 2019 to 7.48, a 64% improvement. Joshua has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.61% of 73,695 all-time
9.21
signature single · Rubik's WCA African Championship 2024
1,114
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 standingSouth Africa
3×3 one-handed9.2111.14
top 0.61%2 / 467
3×37.489.27
top 1.9%18 / 2,164
Pyraminx3.129.18
top 4.1%20 / 946
Megaminx50.1356.55
top 5.2%8 / 266
Skewb3.427.02
top 7.2%26 / 438
2×22.343.38
top 7.4%66 / 1,510
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves34.33
top 12.2%6 / 53
Clock7.3710.34
top 12.5%16 / 148
4×442.7847.25
top 15.5%42 / 491
5×51:26.801:35.88
top 24.8%35 / 221
Square-123.3127.90
top 35.4%36 / 118
6×63:29.943:58.36
top 54.7%34 / 84
3×3 blindfolded3:22.59—
top 58.9%25 / 53
7×75:38.506:06.08
top 62.1%29 / 69
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 18:11—
early days — 1 solve19 / 27

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

Arnold Classic Africa 2019: 20.71Cape Town Summer 2022: 8.50Gauteng Autumn 2022: 7.96Arnold Classic Africa 2022: 9.94CubeCo Durban Winter Warmup 2022: 9.17Limpopo 2022: 10.13Rubik's WCA African Championship 2022: 9.73CubingZA National Championship 2023: 9.90CubingZA Cape Cubes Spring 2023: 8.09Mimosa Mall Master Cubers 2023: 7.48CubingZA Cape Cubes Challenge 2023: 7.82Puzzlin' Polokwane 2024: 7.90Cubestuff Challenge Q2 2024: 8.28Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Q3 2024: 8.08Rubik's WCA African Championship 2024: 8.17Cubestuff Centurion Q3 2025: 9.20Cubestuff Centurion Q1 2026: 8.50Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Q3 2026: 8.34Farrarmere Full Speed 2026: 8.957.4820.7117 May 201922 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-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 1.21 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.48 away.

Targets move as he improves.