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Lucas Buckley

Pyraminx · top 0.93% of 129,321 all-time · competing since August 2020 · 2020BUCK04

Lucas Buckley has been competing for 6 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.87, set at Perth Puzzle Party 2024, puts him in the top 0.93% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 50th in Australia. Until April 2012, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since August 2020, he has put 843 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 93% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.69 in August 2020 to 8.03, a 57% improvement. Lucas has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.93% of 129,321 all-time
1.87
signature single · Perth Puzzle Party 2024
843
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 93% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
Pyraminx1.873.69
top 0.93%50 / 5,993
3×38.0310.87
top 2.8%279 / 11,709
2×22.073.45
top 5.2%385 / 8,567
3×3 one-handed15.1820.78
top 8.5%194 / 2,659
4×440.4349.41
top 12.6%315 / 3,051
Skewb4.366.83
top 13.4%348 / 3,534
Clock9.2212.59
top 21.1%240 / 1,095
5×51:26.821:36.88
top 24.8%332 / 1,356
Megaminx1:36.681:47.79
top 32.5%400 / 1,277
6×63:14.053:38.18
top 47.7%289 / 641
Square-137.7847.03
top 62.5%602 / 899
7×75:41.87—
early days — 3 solves297 / 523
3×3 Fewest Moves49 moves—
early days — 1 solve336 / 468

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

Perth Late Night 2020: 18.69Speedy South Perth 2020: 16.28South Perth Summer 2020: 14.35York Cube Day 2021: 10.59Showground Showdown 2021: 11.92WA State Championship 2021: 9.99Rockingham Rapid 2021: 9.89Fremantle Fast Fingers 2021: 11.52Puzzling Pinjarra 2021: 10.08Perth 10 Year Anniversary 2021: 10.86WA Open 2023: 10.53Butler Blitz 2023: 8.99Perth Puzzle Party 2024: 8.87Albany Summer Solving 2024: 8.03Murdoch University Open 2024: 9.93South Perth Cube Day 2024: 10.18Australian Nationals 2024: 10.42Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2024: 8.62Keep Up Karrinyup 2025: 12.52Muchea Cube Day 2025: 10.338.0318.699 Aug 20206 Dec 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.87 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.03 away.

Targets move as he improves.