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Leo Bateman

3×3 · top 9.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2022 · 2022BATE04

Leo Bateman has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.59, set at Rubik's UK Championship 2023, puts him in the top 9.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 668th in the United Kingdom. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since September 2022, he has put 212 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 92% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.87 in September 2022 to 10.59, a 57% improvement. Leo has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.2% of 284,439 all-time
10.59
signature single · Rubik's UK Championship 2023
212
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 92% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×310.5914.17
top 9.2%668 / 6,689
2×24.386.05
top 31.4%1,670 / 4,895
Pyraminx8.2010.16
top 37.9%1,520 / 3,656
Skewb19.6122.98
top 89.0%2,195 / 2,421
3×3 one-handed1:28.38
early days — 1 solve1,804 / 1,851

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

Droitwich Spa Autumn 2022: 24.87Essex Winter 2022: 23.88Brent Cross Winter 2023: 21.64Suffolk Summer 2023: 21.45Stevenage July 2023: 18.70Harrow Autumn 2023: 16.72Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 10.59Stevenage June 2024: 13.90Stevenage August 2024: 13.63Stevenage October 2024: 12.44Ipswich Autumn 2024: 13.78Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 13.1110.5924.8717 Sep 20221 Nov 2024

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.59 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.38 away.

Targets move as he improves.