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Luke Heath-Edwards

2×2 · top 6.7% of 186,767 all-time · competing since January 2018 · 2018HEAT01

Luke Heath-Edwards has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.26, set at NZ South Island Championship 2021, puts him in the top 6.7% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 146th in New Zealand. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 40 competitions since January 2018, he has put 2,247 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.94 in January 2018 to 9.73, a 39% improvement. Luke has entered 40 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 6.7% of 186,767 all-time
2.26
signature single · NZ South Island Championship 2021
2,247
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNew Zealand
2×22.264.31
top 6.7%146 / 1,615
3×39.7311.92
top 6.7%146 / 2,095
4×435.2543.48
top 6.9%59 / 722
Pyraminx3.976.96
top 7.5%120 / 1,141
Skewb3.536.53
top 7.9%73 / 666
Clock7.158.47
top 11.5%55 / 303
3×3 one-handed17.8425.18
top 14.7%95 / 600
5×51:20.971:29.69
top 19.9%87 / 355
6×62:21.292:39.42
top 21.1%40 / 149
Megaminx1:21.791:31.74
top 23.0%88 / 283
7×73:47.654:09.72
top 26.3%41 / 126
3×3 blindfolded1:45.122:23.57
top 28.4%37 / 86
Square-122.8829.05
top 34.4%101 / 251
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 5 cubes · 30:28—
top 36.1%17 / 49
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves40.67
top 37.3%53 / 111
4×4 blindfolded14:54.00—
early days — 1 solve19 / 23

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

NxNZ Open 2018: 15.94Palmerston North 2018: 16.31Auckland Spring 2018: 16.02New Zealand Nationals 2018: 12.83Mind Games 2019: 15.91SNZ Southern 2019: 14.19NxNZ 2019: 14.61Koalafication Palmy 2019: 15.37Oceania 10th Anniversary 2019: 13.76WCA World Championship 2019: 12.74Otago October 2019: 13.56New Zealand Nationals 2019: 12.04Auckland Summer Open 2020: 10.48Welcome Back Wellington 2020: 11.78New Zealand Nationals 2020: 10.48A New Year in Auckland 2021: 12.39Twisty Taranaki 2021: 10.37NZ South Island Championship 2021: 10.06Palmerston North 2021: 12.13Nimble Napier 2021: 11.15Southern Scramble Dunedin 2021: 11.25NZ North Island Championship 2021: 11.26Popping Off Pukekohe A 2022: 11.75Palmerston North 2022: 10.27Twisty Taranaki 2022: 11.74Puzzling Porirua 2022: 12.50NZ South Island Championship 2022: 10.87Three Rounds Whangarei 2022: 10.68Opawa Open 2022: 10.15New Zealand Nationals 2022: 10.80A New Year in Hamilton 2023: 10.74Auckland Autumn 2023: 11.71Auckland Mid-Year Madness 2023: 11.16NZ South Island Championship 2023: 11.45Tauranga Open 2023: 10.79NZ North Island Championship 2023: 9.73Beachside Auckland 2024: 11.839.7316.3127 Jan 20186 Apr 2024

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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.26 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.73 away.

Targets move as he improves.