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Liam Finn McCool Kelly
Pyraminx · top 0.19% of 129,321 all-time · competing since January 2020 · 2020KELL01
Liam Finn McCool Kelly has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.26, set at Colorado Cubing Weekend 2025, puts him in the top 0.19% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 62nd in the United States. Until January 2018, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 50 competitions since January 2020, he has put 1,727 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 95% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.89 in January 2020 to 9.91, a 64% improvement. Liam has entered 50 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 1.26 | 6.26 | top 0.19% | 62 / 28,708 | |
| 2×2 | 1.03 | 2.86 | top 0.62% | 260 / 40,951 | |
| Skewb | 1.64 | 3.34 | top 0.63% | 102 / 18,907 | |
| Clock | 5.74 | 8.25 | top 6.4% | 497 / 8,927 | |
| 3×3 | 9.91 | 12.37 | top 7.2% | 3,963 / 59,724 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 17.96 | 31.32 | top 15.0% | 1,939 / 15,683 | |
| Square-1 | 18.93 | 29.42 | top 25.5% | 1,686 / 6,743 | |
| 4×4 | 55.07 | 1:04.46 | top 30.8% | 4,853 / 19,072 | |
| Megaminx | 1:34.93 | 2:02.07 | top 31.3% | 2,210 / 7,841 | |
| 5×5 | 2:50.60 | — | early days — 1 solve | 6,675 / 9,401 |
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
- 14 Dec 2024First sub-10 3×3: 9.91 at Centennial State Cube Off 2024.
- 9 Mar 2024Four personal bests in one day at Spring Madness Colorado 2024.
- 24 Feb 2024Four personal bests in one day at Happy Crew Déjà Vu Colorado 2024.
- 29 Oct 2022Four personal bests in one day at Cubing in The Springs 2022.
- 24 Sep 2022First sub-15 3×3: 13.65 at CO Solving in Fall for All 2022.
- 21 May 2022Three personal bests in one day at Colorado Cubing Weekend 2022.
Competitions
- Rocky Mountain Championship 2026 · 21 Aug 2026
- Pikes Peak AM 2026 · 25 Jul 2026
- Cube Against Cancer Colorado 2026 · 3 May 2026
- Pi Day Cubing CO 2026 · 14 Mar 2026
- Oredigger Open CO 2026 · 8 Feb 2026
- Colorado Cubing Weekend 2025 · 6 Sep 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Colorado Springs Summer 2025 · 26 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025
- Grand Junction Dysfunction 2025 · 31 May 2025
- Colorado Springs Spring 2025 · 17 May 2025
- Pueblo Puzzling 2025 · 26 Apr 2025
- Longmont Open 2025 · 19 Apr 2025
- Happy Crew CO 2025 · 29 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Winter Warmup CO 2025 · 11 Jan 2025
- Centennial State Cube Off 2024 · 14 Dec 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Golden Touch 2024 · 5 Oct 2024
- Cubing with an Altitude Colorado 2024 · 31 Aug 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Back to School Colorado 2024 · 24 Aug 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Colorado Mountain Tour - Glenwood Springs 2024 · 11 Jun 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Colorado Mountain Tour - Avon 2024 · 10 Jun 2024
- Colorado Mountain Tour - Frisco 2024 · 9 Jun 2024
- Colorado Mountain Tour - Evergreen 2024 · 8 Jun 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Pretzel Mania Denver 2024 · 25 May 2024
- Cherry on Top Colorado AM 2024 · 27 Apr 2024
- Spring Madness Colorado 2024 · 9 Mar 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Happy Crew Déjà Vu Colorado 2024 · 24 Feb 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Barely Awake Boulder 2024 · 27 Jan 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Happy Holidays Colorado 2023 · 30 Dec 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- USAFA Flyby Cubing 2023 · 16 Dec 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2023 · 3 Nov 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Rocky Mountain Warm-Up 2023 · 28 Oct 2023
- Centennial State Cube-Off 2023 · 9 Sep 2023
- Don't Fall Off Pikes Peak 2023 · 15 Jul 2023
- Summer Solving Colorado 2023 · 24 Jun 2023
- Colorado Western Slope 2023 · 13 May 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Mile High Megacomp 2023 · 4 Mar 2023
- Happy Crew Cubing CO 2023 · 25 Feb 2023
- High Plains Solving 2023 · 12 Feb 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Bundle Up Broomfield 2023 · 21 Jan 2023 — 1 personal best set
- LoCo Cubing AM 2022 · 10 Dec 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing in The Springs 2022 · 29 Oct 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- CO Solving in Fall for All 2022 · 24 Sep 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubing for Charity Colorado 2022 · 16 Jul 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Colorado Cubing Weekend 2022 · 21 May 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Cubing in Craig 2022 · 16 Apr 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Pikes Peak Good Afternoon 2022 · 9 Apr 2022 — 1 personal best set
- DeNxNver 2022 · 12 Feb 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Pikes Peak Returns B 2021 · 14 Nov 2021 — 2 personal bests set
- Olde Town Parker 2020 · 15 Feb 2020 — 1 personal best set
- Colorado Springs Winter 2020 · 11 Jan 2020
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.
- Stone Amsbaugh — met in 291 rounds, finished ahead 74 times
- Kian Cline — met in 262 rounds, finished ahead 63 times
- Evan Wilson — met in 253 rounds, finished ahead 57 times
Next targets
- A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.26 away.
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.03 away.
Targets move as he improves.