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Luke Galioto

Pyraminx · top 5.0% of 129,321 all-time · competing since September 2015 · 2015GALI02

Luke Galioto has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 3.39, set at Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025, puts him in the top 5.0% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,313th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 120 competitions since September 2015, he has put 3,006 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.32 in September 2015 to 9.88, a 67% improvement. Luke has entered 120 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 5.0% of 129,321 all-time
3.39
signature single · Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025
3,006
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Pyraminx3.397.01
top 5.0%1,313 / 28,708
3×39.8812.31
top 7.1%3,920 / 59,724
Skewb3.527.30
top 7.9%1,222 / 18,907
Square-111.0714.25
top 8.1%585 / 6,743
2×22.544.47
top 9.3%3,669 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed17.1922.05
top 13.1%1,686 / 15,683
Megaminx1:05.831:13.10
top 13.2%903 / 7,841
4×441.5648.15
top 14.0%2,079 / 19,072
5×51:29.981:40.34
top 27.3%2,136 / 9,401
Clock14.6718.41
top 46.6%3,772 / 8,927
3×3 Fewest Moves44 moves—
top 62.5%1,310 / 2,040
6×64:06.154:26.64
top 67.5%2,633 / 4,196
7×77:46.068:03.74
early days — 3 solves2,768 / 3,184

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

Norwich Summer 2015: 30.32Northeastern Fall 2015: 30.17Manhasset Fall 2015: 28.02MIT Fall 2015: 27.43Liberty Science 2015: 18.59Red Cross Cubing Open 2016: 24.20Princeton Winter 2016: 22.50Williams Winter 2016: 22.02Big Apple Cube Clash 2016: 28.54Weston Spring 2016: 23.88Manhasset Spring 2016: 24.88MIT Spring 2016: 21.31Big Apple Spring 2016: 24.47Northeastern Spring 2016: 23.97Cube4Cam 2016: 23.82Lexington Summer 2016: 20.14US Nationals 2016: 23.77Quabbin Open 2016: 23.28Princeton Fall 2016: 21.30Phillips Exeter Cube Day 2016: 23.90Hudson Valley Open Fall 2016: 20.67UMass ODS Fall 2016: 19.45Monument Mountain Winter 2017: 19.06Ledgewood Winter Open 2017: 21.04WPI Winter Cube Day 2017: 19.58New York City Winter 2017: 19.62Las Vegas Spring 2017: 15.57Red Cross Cubing Open 2017: 21.91Big Cube Bash 2017: 15.98Quabbin Spring 2017: 22.41Hudson Valley Spring 2017: 20.23CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 21.43WPI Fall Cube Fest 2017: 19.06Hudson Valley Fall 2017: 20.63Cubing with the Viking 2017: 18.52Liberty Science Center Open 2017: 15.24Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 20.63WPI Winter Cube Day 2018: 19.47Hudson Valley Open 2018: 20.73New York City Spring 2018: 19.74Tea Time Spring 2018: 18.52CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 18.12New Hope Open Spring 2018: 16.15First State 2018: 14.23CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 17.25Blue Cubed 2018: 14.50Quinnipiac 2018: 18.52Kew Forest Open 2018: 17.10Princeton Fall 2018: 15.70MIT Fall 2018: 17.40Fall Foliage Cubing 2018: 17.05New York City Fall 2018: 15.14TJHSST Fall 2018: 16.38Lower Moreland Fall 2018: 16.10CubingUSA New Jersey Championship 2018: 13.62Liberty Science Center Open 2018: 15.39Hudson Valley Winter 2019: 15.77Boston University Winter 2019: 13.39New Hope Open Winter 2019: 14.82Princeton Winter 2019: 14.22CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 13.17Long Island Winter 2019: 14.20Binghamton Winter 2019: 15.29Lower Moreland Winter 2019: 14.92SBU Spring 2019: 14.13Ridge Cubing 2019: 12.87Burke Mountain Cubing 2019: 14.17The Battle of Lexington 2019: 14.89George School Open 2019: 15.72Brooklyn 2019: 14.77Colonie Spring 2019: 12.04Arcadia Summer 2019: 16.31Canadian Championship 2019: 11.67CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 13.14Michigan 2019: 12.60Quabbin Summer 2019: 14.58Ridge Cubing Fall 2019: 12.05Providence Fall 2019: 12.77Brooklyn Fall 2019: 13.26Mississippi Capstone 2019: 13.43Liberty Science Center Open 2019: 12.82MIT Winter 2020: 14.01Scranton Scramble 2020: 12.04Princeton Winter 2020: 14.60Country Roads Martinsburg 2020: 12.60Babylon Winter 2020: 11.33Empire State Summer A 2021: 14.09Babylon Fall 2021: 11.92Slow N Steady Fall 2021: 11.86Windy City New Year 2022: 13.42Empire State Winter A 2022: 11.33Pennsylvania Championship 2022: 11.92Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 13.92Pretzel Mania 2022: 10.75Pretzel Mania 2023: 12.13Connecticut Spring 2023: 14.10CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 10.72Pretzel Mania Dallas 2023: 11.29Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 11.41Cubes on the Bayside 2023: 13.38Cubes on the Bayside Winter 2024: 10.84Cubes on the Bayside Spring 2024: 12.45Spring into Summit 2024: 13.92Pretzel Mania Denver 2024: 10.45Cubes on the Bayside Summer 2024: 10.27Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 10.55CubingUSA Southern Championship 2024: 13.07Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 10.59Flushing Glow AM 2024: 12.93Rutgers Winter 2025: 12.19PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025: 10.44Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 11.77Fort Lee Summer 2025: 9.88Berkeley Fall 2025: 12.499.8830.3212 Sep 20154 Oct 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.

  • Eric Zhao — met in 352 rounds, finished ahead 71 times
  • Livia Kleiner — met in 310 rounds, finished ahead twice
  • Lauren Phung — met in 289 rounds, finished ahead 19 times

Next targets

  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.39 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.88 away.

Targets move as he improves.