Sunday 6 September 2026 Rebuilt nightly from the WCA's official results · export of 6 September 2026 · About
The Middle Three
People → Australia → Lachlan Plew

People · Australia

Lachlan Plew

3×3 · top 9.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2015 · 2015PLEW01

Lachlan Plew has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.71, set at Odd Day in Sydney 2018, puts him in the top 9.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 844th in Australia. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since August 2015, he has put 72 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.52 in August 2015 to 10.71, a 64% improvement. Lachlan has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.6% of 284,439 all-time
10.71
signature single · Odd Day in Sydney 2018
72
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×310.7112.11
top 9.6%844 / 11,709
3×3 one-handed17.5820.33
top 14.0%317 / 2,659
2×25.016.43
top 39.4%3,117 / 8,567
Pyraminx11.5419.70
top 64.2%3,840 / 5,993

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

Sydney Winter 2015: 29.52Sydney Winter 2017: 15.19Canberra Autumn 2018: 11.35Odd Day in Sydney 2018: 10.7110.7129.528 Aug 201511 Nov 2018

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.

  • Caleb Clark — met in 15 rounds, finished ahead once
  • Kent Thomson — met in 14 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
  • Edbert Sim — met in 13 rounds, finished ahead 4 times

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.71 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 2.58 away.

Targets move as he improves.