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Levi Hetherington

2×2 · top 0.057% of 186,767 all-time · competing since June 2022 · 2022HETH01

Levi Hetherington has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.63, set at A New Year in Auckland 2025, puts him in the top 0.057% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5th in New Zealand. Until June 2015, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since June 2022, he has put 912 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 2×2 best has come down from 5.46 in June 2022 to 0.63, an 88% improvement. Levi has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.057% of 186,767 all-time
0.63
signature single · A New Year in Auckland 2025
912
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNew Zealand
2×20.631.54
top 0.057%5 / 1,615
Pyraminx1.442.48
top 0.35%15 / 1,141
Skewb2.265.11
top 2.1%26 / 666
3×37.808.92
top 2.4%76 / 2,095
3×3 one-handed12.6119.12
top 3.8%39 / 600
4×444.6849.66
top 17.9%129 / 722
Clock9.5911.22
top 23.1%88 / 303
Megaminx1:32.601:59.57
top 29.9%109 / 283
5×51:37.241:47.22
top 33.3%116 / 355
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves39.00
early days — 3 solves49 / 111
Square-125.2339.31
top 39.6%117 / 251
6×64:42.215:00.26
top 77.7%126 / 149
7×78:53.43—
early days — 1 solve122 / 126

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

Puzzling Porirua 2022: 5.46Palmerston North 2023: 2.05Tauranga Open 2023: 1.78New Zealand Nationals 2023: 1.65Palmerston North 2024: 1.08NZ North Island Championship 2024: 1.00Only Cubes in Wellington 2024: 1.40Hasty Hastings 2024: 1.51New Zealand Nationals 2024: 1.17A New Year in Auckland 2025: 0.63NZ North Island Championship 2025: 1.07Hasty Hastings 2025: 1.18New Zealand Nationals 2025: 0.88Wellington Autumn 2026: 1.14GAN New Zealand Nationals 2026: 0.940.635.4611 Jun 202210 Jul 2026

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.44 away.
  • A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.26 away.

Targets move as he improves.