People · Ireland
Laurence He
5×5 · top 1.9% of 40,792 all-time · competing since June 2017 · 2017HELO01
Laurence He has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 5×5: a personal-best single of 50.48, set at Rubik's Irish Championship 2025, puts him in the top 1.9% of the 40,792 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6th in Ireland. Until August 2014, no official 5×5 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since June 2017, he has put 782 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 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.81 in June 2017 to 8.03, a 74% improvement. Laurence has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Ireland | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5×5 | 50.48 | 59.58 | top 1.9% | 6 / 296 | |
| 4×4 | 29.56 | 34.76 | top 2.6% | 16 / 579 | |
| 3×3 | 8.03 | 9.98 | top 2.8% | 53 / 1,427 | |
| 2×2 | 1.71 | 3.66 | top 3.1% | 58 / 1,163 | |
| Pyraminx | 3.06 | 6.21 | top 3.8% | 57 / 911 | |
| Skewb | 3.64 | 8.06 | top 8.6% | 56 / 624 | |
| 6×6 | 1:54.31 | 2:05.65 | top 8.8% | 14 / 142 | |
| 7×7 | 3:04.26 | 3:17.25 | top 11.8% | 13 / 108 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 21.89 | 26.28 | top 25.7% | 93 / 448 | |
| Square-1 | 26.35 | 31.52 | top 42.1% | 87 / 194 |
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
- 17 Aug 2024Five personal bests in one day at Dublin Summer Solving 2024.
- 5 Jul 2024Six personal bests in one day at Rubik's Irish Championship 2024.
- 20 Aug 2023Three personal bests in one day at Dublin Summer Solving Sunday 2023.
- 4 Nov 2022Three personal bests in one day at Irish Championship 2022.
- 8 Oct 2022Three personal bests in one day at Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2022.
- 21 Aug 2022Three personal bests in one day at Dublin Open Sunday 2022.
Competitions
- Solving by the Barrow 2025 · 29 Nov 2025
- Rubik's Irish Championship 2025 · 15 Aug 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Let's Go Carlow 2025 · 29 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Dublin Summer Solving 2024 · 17 Aug 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- Rubik's Irish Championship 2024 · 5 Jul 2024 — 6 personal bests set
- UCD Cube Days 2024 · 13 Apr 2024
- Dublin Summer Solving Sunday 2023 · 20 Aug 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Irish Championship 2022 · 4 Nov 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2022 · 8 Oct 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Dublin Open Sunday 2022 · 21 Aug 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Cubing with the Cats Saturday 2022 · 23 Jul 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Seaside Solving Saturday 2022 · 9 Apr 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Tuam Re-Open Saturday 2021 · 27 Nov 2021 — 6 personal bests set
- Every Event Éire 2019 · 2 Nov 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Irish Championship 2017 · 24 Jun 2017
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.
- Richard Madden — met in 120 rounds, finished ahead 14 times
- Ben Timmons — met in 116 rounds, finished ahead 58 times
- Ciarán Beahan — met in 116 rounds, finished ahead twice
Next targets
- A sub-50 5×5 single — 713 people have one; it is 0.48 away.
- A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 4.56 away.
Targets move as he improves.