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Luke Burns

Clock · top 0.034% of 32,048 all-time · competing since March 2020 · 2020BURN06

Luke Burns has been competing for 6 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 1.94, set at Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026, puts him in the top 0.034% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in the United Kingdom. Until January 2025, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 64 competitions since March 2020, he has put 4,389 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.24 in March 2020 to 5.64, a 67% improvement. Luke has entered 64 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 0.034% of 32,048 all-time
1.94
signature single · Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026
4,389
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 74% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
Clock1.942.90
top 0.034%1 / 1,232
2×20.701.22
top 0.12%12 / 4,895
3×35.646.93
top 0.3%33 / 6,689
4×423.8428.29
top 0.46%17 / 2,071
Square-16.429.33
top 1.1%11 / 778
Megaminx39.2245.88
top 1.4%23 / 966
Pyraminx2.224.08
top 1.5%63 / 3,656
5×550.3857.70
top 1.9%32 / 1,151
3×3 one-handed11.0715.30
top 1.9%37 / 1,851
Skewb2.575.30
top 3.2%71 / 2,421
6×61:38.181:43.39
top 3.6%24 / 548
7×72:49.312:55.27
top 7.7%35 / 459
3×3 blindfolded51.271:15.36
top 10.3%51 / 311
3×3 Fewest Moves34 moves39.33
top 26.7%118 / 372
4×4 blindfolded6:00.96—
top 29.1%37 / 84
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 7 cubes · 39:03—
top 58.5%95 / 126
5×5 blindfolded20:03.00—
early days — 1 solve37 / 50

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

Manchester Open 2020: 17.24Tuam Re-Open Sunday 2021: 9.40Wakefield Open 2022: 7.75Farnworth Spring D 2022: 8.84Wakefield Spring 2022: 8.09Cheltenham Summer 2022: 7.79Carlisle Summer 2022: 8.09Lincoln Summer 2022: 7.68Droitwich Spa Autumn 2022: 7.39Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 6.92Essex Winter 2022: 7.15UK New Year Countdown 2023: 7.45Belfast Winter 2023: 7.98Lincolnshire Winter 2023: 6.37Bolton Spring 2023: 7.94Wakefield Spring 2023: 6.93Edinburgh Summer 2023: 6.68Bolton Summer 2023: 6.56North Wales Summer 2023: 7.04August Bank Holiday Manchester 2023: 7.28Wakefield Autumn 2023: 7.17Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 7.33Liverpool Winter 2023: 6.22Manchester Winter 2024: 6.30Manchester Spring 2024: 6.69Bolton Spring 2024: 6.85Wakefield Summer 2024: 6.88Manchester June 2024: 6.99Bolton Summer 2024: 6.04Rubik's Irish Championship 2024: 6.65Warm Up Portugalete 2024: 6.50Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 6.90Lincolnshire Summer 2024: 6.88Kewbz UK Open 2024: 5.71Wiltshire September 2024: 7.08Leicestershire Autumn 2024: 6.64Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 5.64Lincolnshire Autumn 2024: 7.60Crewe Favourites 2025: 6.34Manchester January 2025: 6.98Manchester February 2025: 7.11Leeds Spring 2025: 7.28Bolton Spring 2025: 6.33Crewe Spring 2025: 6.77Kewbz Scottish Championship 2025: 6.51Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.40Rubik's Irish Championship 2025: 6.18Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 6.18Manchester Favourites II 2026: 7.10Crewe Spring 2026: 6.33Bolton Spring 2026: 6.44Leeds Spring 2026: 5.64Wakefield Summer 2026: 5.88Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 6.02Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 6.035.6417.2414 Mar 202028 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.64 away.

Targets move as he improves.