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Lucas O'Connell

2×2 · top 0.065% of 186,767 all-time · competing since September 2016 · 2016OCON02

Lucas O'Connell has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.64, set at Techweek NZ 2017, puts him in the top 0.065% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2nd in Italy. Until June 2015, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 33 competitions since September 2016, he has put 1,908 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 61% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.45 in September 2016 to 6.48, a 68% improvement. Lucas has entered 33 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.065% of 186,767 all-time
0.64
signature single · Techweek NZ 2017
1,908
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingItaly
2×20.641.95
top 0.065%2 / 2,068
Skewb1.503.82
top 0.45%6 / 804
3×36.488.20
top 0.84%31 / 2,882
Pyraminx2.202.99
top 1.5%38 / 1,403
3×3 blindfolded22.2729.08
top 2.1%7 / 244
4×429.9536.98
top 2.8%32 / 1,206
Square-17.9610.80
top 3.0%16 / 411
3×3 one-handed12.4715.72
top 3.6%32 / 887
Megaminx48.9252.89
top 4.6%26 / 544
3×3 Fewest Moves25 moves31.00
top 5.1%17 / 266
5×51:05.071:12.95
top 8.4%52 / 642
3×3 Multi-Blind15 of 17 cubes · 57:37—
top 11.4%14 / 100
6×62:16.772:34.66
top 18.8%51 / 273
7×73:35.773:45.02
top 21.8%49 / 219
Clock9.5411.41
top 22.8%124 / 414
4×4 blindfolded6:19.53—
top 32.1%16 / 48
5×5 blindfolded17:50.00—
early days — 2 solves19 / 30

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

Palmerston North 2016: 20.45New Zealand Nationals 2016: 16.86Mind Games 2017: 13.75SNZ Southern 2017: 13.54Techweek NZ 2017: 11.20SNZ Northern 2017: 9.79Supreme South Open 2017: 9.97Hamilton Spring 2017: 10.87New Zealand Nationals 2017: 8.62NxNZ Open 2018: 9.69Mind Games 2018: 9.32SNZ Southern 2018: 8.89Palmerston North 2018: 8.57CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 9.23Auckland Spring 2018: 8.42Supreme South Open 2018: 6.51New Zealand Nationals 2018: 8.40Mind Games 2019: 7.04Kansai Open 2019: 7.30Koalafication Palmy 2019: 7.32Oceania 10th Anniversary 2019: 7.73WCA World Championship 2019: 7.46Wellington Mind Games 2020: 7.56Auckland Summer Open 2020: 7.39Welcome Back Wellington 2020: 6.92New Zealand Nationals 2020: 7.99A New Year in Auckland 2021: 7.61Wellington Mind Games 2021: 7.63Palmerston North 2021: 6.48Capelle Cubing 2024: 6.65Buenos Aires Fin de Año 2024: 7.60Pai Open VCP 2025: 7.466.4820.4525 Sep 201625 Jan 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 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.50 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.48 away.

Targets move as he improves.