People · Australia
Lincoln Wood
2×2 · top 3.2% of 186,767 all-time · competing since January 2021 · 2021WOOD02
Lincoln Wood has been competing for 6 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.72, set at VIC State Championship 2025, puts him in the top 3.2% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 259th in Australia. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since January 2021, he has put 637 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.14 in January 2021 to 9.43, a 55% improvement. Lincoln has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Australia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 1.72 | 4.29 | top 3.2% | 259 / 8,567 | |
| 3×3 | 9.43 | 13.50 | top 5.9% | 546 / 11,709 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.07 | 7.98 | top 13.6% | 649 / 5,993 | |
| 4×4 | 49.66 | 56.09 | top 24.3% | 610 / 3,051 | |
| Skewb | 6.08 | 9.34 | top 26.3% | 696 / 3,534 |
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
- 11 Apr 2026First sub-10 3×3: 9.43 at West Melbourne Open 2026.
- 18 Mar 2023Four personal bests in one day at Speedcubing at Seaworks 2023.
- 15 Oct 2022First sub-15 3×3: 13.85 at Koalafication Melbourne 2022.
- 15 Oct 2022Three personal bests in one day at Koalafication Melbourne 2022.
- 21 Jan 2022Four personal bests in one day at Melbourne Summer 2022.
- 17 Apr 2021First sub-20 3×3: 17.36 at Altona Algorithms Attempt 2 2021.
Competitions
- West Melbourne Open 2026 · 11 Apr 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Melbourne Summer 2026 · 24 Jan 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Melbourne Cube Days 2025 · 29 Nov 2025
- Spark Melbourne July 2025 · 26 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- VIC State Championship 2025 · 31 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Spark Melbourne February 2025 · 22 Feb 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Melbourne Summer 2025 · 24 Jan 2025
- Altona Algorithms 2024 · 2 Mar 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Melbourne Summer 2024 · 19 Jan 2024
- Victorian Open 2023 · 1 Jul 2023
- Speedcubing at Seaworks 2023 · 18 Mar 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Kensington Summer Sunday 2023 · 12 Feb 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Melbourne Summer 2023 · 20 Jan 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2022 · 15 Dec 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Koalafication Melbourne 2022 · 15 Oct 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Melbourne Trilogy Saturday 2022 · 13 Aug 2022
- Wonderful Williamstown 2022 · 23 Apr 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Melbourne Mini Sunday 2022 · 6 Mar 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Melbourne Summer 2022 · 21 Jan 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- December Series: Kensington 2021 · 19 Dec 2021 — 1 personal best set
- Altona Algorithms Attempt 2 2021 · 17 Apr 2021 — 3 personal bests set
- Melbourne Summer 2021 · 23 Jan 2021
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.
- Jacob Joshi — met in 127 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Phoenix Patterson — met in 124 rounds, never finished ahead
- Oliver Drew — met in 120 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
Next targets
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.72 away.
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.43 away.
Targets move as he improves.