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Julian Mallia
2×2 · top 8.8% of 189,179 all-time · competing since February 2025 · 2025MALL02
Julian Mallia has been competing for a year. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.48, set at Puzzling Pakenham Sunday 2025, puts him in the top 8.8% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 678th in Australia. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since February 2025, he has put 259 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 67% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.29 in February 2025 to 11.11, a 52% improvement. Julian has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Australia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 2.48 | 4.34 | top 8.8% | 678 / 8,727 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.59 | 7.26 | top 10.8% | 499 / 6,109 | |
| 3×3 | 11.11 | 12.77 | top 10.9% | 983 / 11,943 | |
| Skewb | 6.23 | 8.69 | top 27.7% | 769 / 3,589 | |
| Megaminx | 1:45.78 | — | top 38.1% | 482 / 1,313 | |
| 4×4 | 1:07.92 | 1:10.67 | top 44.9% | 1,227 / 3,108 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 31.69 | 42.08 | top 50.6% | 1,183 / 2,685 | |
| Clock | 15.94 | — | top 51.7% | 563 / 1,159 | |
| 5×5 | 2:36.77 | — | early days — 2 solves | 999 / 1,412 | |
| Square-1 | 1:07.96 | — | top 88.1% | 840 / 920 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 11 Apr 2026Five personal bests in one day at West Melbourne Open 2026.
- 26 Jul 2025First sub-20 3×3: 14.52 at Spark Melbourne July 2025.
- 26 Jul 2025First sub-15 3×3: 14.52 at Spark Melbourne July 2025.
- 26 Jul 2025Three personal bests in one day at Spark Melbourne July 2025.
- 22 Feb 2025First competition: Spark Melbourne February 2025. A 24.97 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Belgrave Open 2026 · 12 Sep 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Spark Melbourne Autumn Saturday 2026 · 23 May 2026
- West Melbourne Open 2026 · 11 Apr 2026 — 5 personal bests set
- North-East Melbourne March Sunday 2026 · 8 Mar 2026
- Melbourne Summer 2026 · 24 Jan 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Melbourne Cube Days 2025 · 29 Nov 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- The Big Cube Melbourne 2025 · 11 Oct 2025
- Puzzling Pakenham Sunday 2025 · 28 Sep 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Spark Melbourne July 2025 · 26 Jul 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- VIC State Championship 2025 · 31 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Spark Melbourne February 2025 · 22 Feb 2025 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Peter Au — met in 55 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Ben Wakelin — met in 51 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Nicholas Allen Crow — met in 50 rounds, finished ahead 24 times
Next targets
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.48 away.
- A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 10,050 people have one; it is 0.59 away.
Targets move as he improves.