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Luke Chadwick

3×3 · top 9.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2014 · 2014CHAD03

Luke Chadwick has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.50, set at Cape Town Summer 2022, puts him in the top 9.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 91st in South Africa. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since November 2014, he has put 63 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:02.61 in November 2014 to 10.50, an 83% improvement. Luke has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.0% of 284,439 all-time
10.50
signature single · Cape Town Summer 2022
63
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
3×310.5012.64
top 9.0%91 / 2,164
2×25.836.45
top 49.1%547 / 1,510

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

Cape Town 2014: 1:02.61Speedcubes Cape Town 2019: 21.31Cape Town Spring 2019: 13.09Cape Town Summer 2020: 10.58Cape Town Summer 2022: 10.5010.501:02.6130 Nov 20146 Mar 2022

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.50 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.83 away.

Targets move as he improves.