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Joshua Hounslow

Pyraminx · top 0.15% of 130,891 all-time · competing since July 2016 · 2016HOUN01

Joshua Hounslow has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.20, set at Bunbury's South West Speedsolving 2025, puts him in the top 0.15% of the 130,891 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 11th in Australia. Until January 2018, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 92 competitions since July 2016, he has put 4,373 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 54% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.36 in July 2016 to 5.25, a 68% improvement. Joshua has entered 92 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.15% of 130,891 all-time
1.20
signature single · Bunbury's South West Speedsolving 2025
4,373
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
Pyraminx1.202.34
top 0.15%11 / 6,109
3×35.257.06
top 0.18%25 / 11,943
3×3 Fewest Moves19 moves22.67
top 0.44%3 / 474
2×20.971.80
top 0.5%59 / 8,727
4×424.4430.72
top 0.59%20 / 3,108
3×3 one-handed9.6312.81
top 0.83%23 / 2,685
5×552.0959.79
top 2.4%37 / 1,412
Megaminx45.0449.26
top 3.1%45 / 1,313
Skewb2.834.48
top 4.2%136 / 3,589
Square-19.1514.70
top 4.7%51 / 920
6×61:43.001:48.51
top 4.9%29 / 667
Clock5.206.21
top 4.9%69 / 1,159
3×3 blindfolded37.0646.55
top 6.0%33 / 399
7×72:53.793:03.74
top 8.9%39 / 540
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 6 cubes · 50:09—
top 47.1%89 / 186

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

Perth Winter 2016: 16.36Perth Summer 2017: 11.11Perth Winter 2017: 8.34Perth Autumn 2018: 9.02Perth Puzzle Party 2019: 8.56Westcoast Woodvale Weekends 2019: 8.25Perth Puzzle Party 2020: 8.12Perth Late Night 2020: 8.85Speedy South Perth 2020: 8.18Cubing with the Cows 2020: 8.14South Perth Summer 2020: 7.14York Cube Day 2021: 7.50Showground Showdown 2021: 7.76Craigie Cube-Off 2021: 7.48WA State Championship 2021: 6.76Rockingham Rapid 2021: 7.57Fremantle Fast Fingers 2021: 7.16Puzzling Pinjarra 2021: 7.45Perth 10 Year Anniversary 2021: 5.42Perth Underground Open 2022: 6.66Albany Summer Solving 2022: 6.38Perth Autumn 2022: 6.64Rockingham Rapid 2022: 7.09WA Open 2022: 7.61Perth Puzzle Marathon 2022: 7.18Warm Up Mandurah 2022: 7.26Australian Nationals 2022: 5.66Butler Blitz 2022: 6.70Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2022: 7.10Perth Summer 2023: 6.76Albany Summer Solving 2023: 6.38Hurry Up Karrinyup 2023: 6.39Perth Autumn 2023: 6.12Perth Time Trial 2023: 7.25WA Open 2023: 6.26Butler Blitz 2023: 7.26Perth Puzzle Party 2024: 6.12Murdoch University Open 2024: 7.26South Perth Cube Day 2024: 6.36Going Fast in Guildford 2024: 6.89Perth Puzzle Pyjama Party 2024: 7.46Perth Autumn 2024: 5.25Only 3x3s in Perth 2024: 6.49Pinjarra Pride and Puzzles 2024: 6.11Mundaring Mixup 2024: 6.96Perth Winter 2024: 6.01Perth Time Trial 2024: 7.17Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2024: 6.02Perth Puzzle Party 2025: 5.65Freo Cube-Off 2025: 6.14Keep Up Karrinyup 2025: 7.03Perth Autumn 2025: 6.26Perth Winter 2025: 5.91WA State Championship 2025: 5.91Australian Nationals 2025: 6.75Bunbury's South West Speedsolving 2025: 6.22Muchea Cube Day 2025: 6.65Christmas Cubing by Sorrento Beach 2025: 7.16Perth Summer 2026: 6.76Good Solves in Gibson Park 2026: 6.95Freo Cube-Off 2026: 7.52Perth Favourites Evening 2026: 7.08Perth Puzzle Party 2026: 6.42Perth Winter 2026: 6.05Bindoon Bonanza 2026: 6.71Perth Favourites Evening II 2026: 7.155.2516.3624 Jul 201613 Oct 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-5 3×3 single — 355 people have one; it is 0.25 away.

Targets move as he improves.