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Kirsty Grainger

Megaminx · top 64.2% of 34,786 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022GRAI02

Kirsty Grainger has been competing for 4 years. Her best event is the Megaminx: a personal-best single of 2:36.26, set at Wiltshire February 2024, puts her in the top 64.2% of the 34,786 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 731st in the United Kingdom. Across 15 competitions since October 2022, she has put 101 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 19% around a typical one; 98% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 1:10.01 in October 2022 to 35.06, a 50% improvement. Kirsty has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

Megaminx
best event — top 64.2% of 34,786 all-time
2:36.26
signature single · Wiltshire February 2024
101
official solves on the record
19%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 98% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
Megaminx2:36.262:47.91
top 64.2%731 / 966
3×335.0636.87
top 70.6%5,019 / 6,689
2×220.6636.89
top 96.0%4,778 / 4,895

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

Chippenham Autumn 2022: 1:10.01Wiltshire Winter 2023: 52.31Wiltshire Summer 2023: 1:04.78North Wales Summer 2023: 55.48Wiltshire Autumn 2023: 51.45Wiltshire December 2023: 47.20Wiltshire February 2024: 41.45Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 40.65Wiltshire September 2024: 36.34Hampshire Autumn 2024: 43.31Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 38.17Wiltshire November 2024: 44.11Chichester January 2025: 35.66Wiltshire Summer 2025: 35.68Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 35.0635.061:10.018 Oct 202222 Aug 2025

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-2:00 Megaminx single — 15,873 people have one; it is 36.26 away.
  • A sub-30 3×3 single — 177,856 people have one; it is 5.06 away.

Targets move as she improves.