Sunday 6 September 2026 Rebuilt nightly from the WCA's official results · export of 6 September 2026 · About
The Middle Three
People → United Kingdom → Louise Darling

People · United Kingdom

Louise Darling

3×3 · top 4.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2015 · 2015DARL01

Louise Darling has been competing for 11 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.62, set at Chippenham Autumn 2022, puts her in the top 4.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 320th in the United Kingdom. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since August 2015, she has put 961 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 27.19 in August 2015 to 8.62, a 68% improvement. Louise has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.0% of 284,439 all-time
8.62
signature single · Chippenham Autumn 2022
961
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×38.6210.21
top 4.0%320 / 6,689
4×434.6844.13
top 6.4%153 / 2,071
2×22.494.10
top 8.8%592 / 4,895
Square-112.7517.00
top 11.4%115 / 778
Megaminx1:04.361:15.88
top 12.3%157 / 966
Skewb5.026.39
top 18.3%430 / 2,421
5×51:19.751:26.80
top 18.9%249 / 1,151
Pyraminx6.459.84
top 23.4%918 / 3,656
3×3 one-handed27.9137.95
top 41.7%737 / 1,851
6×63:21.203:27.87
early days — 3 solves305 / 548

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

August Bank Holiday Competition 2015: 27.19UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 21.59Welcome Thay Cambridge 2015: 14.33North London Open 2016: 13.49Macclesfield Open 2016: 12.53August Bank Holiday Competition 2016: 12.15Guildford Open 2016: 12.45UK Championship 2016: 13.49Birmingham Open 2016: 11.68Manchester Open 2017: 11.81Peterborough Open 2017: 11.10Newcastle-under-Lyme Open 2017: 10.82World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 10.70August Bank Holiday Competition 2017: 9.88Hastings Open 2018: 9.58WCA European Championship 2018: 10.42August Bank Holiday Competition 2018: 10.20Stratford-upon-Avon Open 2018: 9.84UK Championship 2018: 10.27Wakefield Open 2022: 9.28Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 9.38August Bank Holiday Cheltenham 2022: 9.18Chippenham Autumn 2022: 8.62Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 10.05Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 9.028.6227.1929 Aug 201522 Aug 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.62 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 4.68 away.

Targets move as she improves.