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Liam Walton

3×3 · top 4.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2025 · 2025WALT04

Liam Walton has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.76, set at Bristol August 2026, puts him in the top 4.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 346th in the United Kingdom. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since May 2025, he has put 598 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 78% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.57 in May 2025 to 8.76, a 57% improvement. Liam has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.3% of 284,439 all-time
8.76
signature single · Bristol August 2026
598
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 78% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×38.7610.82
top 4.3%346 / 6,689
4×438.4847.20
top 10.3%242 / 2,071
2×22.763.45
top 11.6%730 / 4,895
Pyraminx4.746.74
top 11.6%459 / 3,656
Clock7.238.50
top 11.9%168 / 1,232
3×3 one-handed16.9319.09
top 12.4%242 / 1,851
Skewb4.376.28
top 13.5%313 / 2,421
Square-117.6022.97
top 22.4%214 / 778
Megaminx1:36.131:43.70
top 32.1%360 / 966
5×51:42.741:55.04
top 37.4%476 / 1,151
3×3 blindfolded2:25.37—
early days — 1 solve170 / 311
6×64:02.584:04.61
top 66.2%384 / 548
3×3 Fewest Moves46 moves48.33
early days — 3 solves268 / 372

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

Weston-super-Mare Spring 2025: 20.57Coventry Spring 2025: 20.99Stevenage July 2025: 17.59Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 13.72Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2025: 12.25Corby Autumn 2025: 15.30Stevenage October 2025: 12.87Stevenage 10th Anniversary 2025: 14.94Wiltshire Winter 2025: 15.15Weston-super-Mare Winter 2026: 13.33Wiltshire Spring 2026: 11.70Weston-super-Mare Spring 2026: 13.11Wiltshire Summer 2026: 8.85Bristol August 2026: 8.76Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 9.428.7620.9917 May 202528 Aug 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.76 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 8.48 away.

Targets move as he improves.