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Liam Bowlby

2×2 · top 17.9% of 186,767 all-time · competing since May 2023 · 2023BOWL01

Liam Bowlby has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 3.31, set at Maritimes 2025, puts him in the top 17.9% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,200th in Canada. Across 5 competitions since May 2023, he has put 129 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.28 in May 2023 to 14.41, a 35% improvement. Liam has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 17.9% of 186,767 all-time
3.31
signature single · Maritimes 2025
129
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
2×23.315.58
top 17.9%1,200 / 7,173
3×314.4116.78
top 22.4%2,148 / 10,392
Pyraminx7.0911.47
top 28.6%1,237 / 4,858
Skewb9.7216.30
top 53.2%1,463 / 2,907
4×41:30.40
top 63.9%1,824 / 3,118
Clock26.2937.16
top 79.0%800 / 1,029
Megaminx3:38.21
early days — 2 solves1,107 / 1,375

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

Halifax Favourites 2023: 22.28Halifax Fall 2023: 17.56Halifax Summer 2024: 14.41Maritimes 2025: 14.57Moncton 2025: 15.3514.4122.2820 May 20235 Apr 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.31 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.41 away.

Targets move as he improves.