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Liam Wadek

2×2 · top 0.25% of 186,767 all-time · competing since May 2017 · 2017WADE01

Liam Wadek has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.82, set at Solve Well in Wellington 2025, puts him in the top 0.25% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 17th in New Zealand. Until November 2011, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 89 competitions since May 2017, he has put 5,079 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 53.17 in May 2017 to 7.51, an 86% improvement. Liam has entered 89 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.25% of 186,767 all-time
0.82
signature single · Solve Well in Wellington 2025
5,079
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNew Zealand
2×20.822.83
top 0.25%17 / 1,615
Pyraminx1.973.37
top 1.1%31 / 1,141
Clock3.505.06
top 1.5%10 / 303
3×37.519.25
top 2.0%61 / 2,095
Skewb2.874.05
top 4.4%43 / 666
4×432.6737.84
top 4.7%48 / 722
7×72:42.132:58.87
top 5.9%11 / 126
6×61:48.641:57.55
top 6.7%17 / 149
5×51:03.111:07.76
top 7.3%32 / 355
Megaminx59.901:07.25
top 10.0%47 / 283
3×3 one-handed16.5721.94
top 11.5%79 / 600
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves39.67
top 12.2%21 / 111
3×3 blindfolded1:16.613:48.81
top 18.3%28 / 86
Square-116.5020.48
top 19.8%58 / 251
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 5 cubes · 38:20—
top 37.3%18 / 49
4×4 blindfolded16:11.00—
early days — 1 solve20 / 23

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

Techweek NZ 2017: 53.17NxNZ Open 2018: 24.92Palmerston North 2018: 16.01SNZ Northern 2018: 17.29Auckland Spring 2018: 14.22New Zealand Nationals 2018: 12.06Mind Games 2019: 13.39NxNZ 2019: 12.78Koalafication Palmy 2019: 12.80WCA World Championship 2019: 14.52New Zealand Nationals 2019: 11.69Auckland Summer Open 2020: 11.07Welcome Back Wellington 2020: 10.80New Zealand Nationals 2020: 10.85A New Year in Auckland 2021: 10.84Twisty Taranaki 2021: 9.80NZ South Island Championship 2021: 10.48Southern Scramble Dunedin 2021: 10.06NZ North Island Championship 2021: 8.85Popping Off Pukekohe B 2022: 9.34Lyttelton Autumn 2022: 9.42Puzzling Porirua 2022: 10.69NZ South Island Championship 2022: 9.76Three Rounds Whangarei 2022: 9.14NZ North Island Championship 2022: 9.89Opawa Open 2022: 10.23New Zealand Nationals 2022: 8.60Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2022: 8.86A New Year in Hamilton 2023: 7.63Wellington Summer 2023: 7.51Auckland Autumn 2023: 9.08Swedish Championship 2023: 8.04Tbilisi Summer Open 2023: 8.79Dolné Orešany Open 2023: 9.11Prague Open 2023: 7.99Olsztyn Open 2023: 8.76Trondheim Cube Week 2023: 7.79Edinburgh Summer 2023: 9.06Sézanne Open 2023: 8.81CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 7.79Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 10.71Half Turns Hataitai 2023: 9.10NZ North Island Championship 2023: 8.57New Zealand Nationals 2023: 8.68Te Atatū Newcomers Open 2024: 9.39Beachside Auckland 2024: 8.80NZ South Island Championship 2024: 9.22Auckland Matariki Open 2024: 8.93Clauckland 2024: 8.40NZ North Island Championship 2024: 10.09South Auckland Side Events 2024: 8.56New Zealand Cubing Decathlon 2024: 9.49Springing into Auckland 2024: 7.52Hasty Hastings 2024: 9.19Max Speed Milford 2024: 9.58New Zealand Nationals 2024: 9.48A New Year in Auckland 2025: 8.77Just Solve in Johnsonville 2025: 7.68Johnsonville FTOpen 2025: 9.06Wellington Skewb Showdown 2025: 8.88Wellington Winter 2025: 8.94Coping in Auckland 2025: 8.58NZ North Island Championship 2025: 9.31Solve Well in Wellington 2025: 8.65NZ Cubing in the Capital 2025: 8.28Samoa Nationals 2025: 10.17Fiji Nationals 2025: 9.17Tonga Nationals 2025: 9.08Drury Summer 2025: 9.10Wellington Spring 2025: 9.35New Zealand Nationals 2025: 9.03Farewellington 2025: 10.50Hurry Up Hutt Valley 2026: 9.02NZ Cubing Heptathlon 2026: 9.61Wellington Autumn 2026: 8.95GAN New Zealand Nationals 2026: 8.747.5153.1713 May 201710 Jul 2026

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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.97 away.
  • A sub-3 Clock single — 239 people have one; it is 0.50 away.

Targets move as he improves.