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Luke Steele

2×2 · top 0.7% of 189,179 all-time · competing since September 2022 · 2022STEE07

Luke Steele has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.07, set at Just Solve in Johnsonville 2025, puts him in the top 0.7% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 39th in New Zealand. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 39 competitions since September 2022, he has put 2,140 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 35.42 in September 2022 to 7.02, an 80% improvement. Luke has entered 39 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.7% of 189,179 all-time
1.07
signature single · Just Solve in Johnsonville 2025
2,140
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNew Zealand
2×21.072.77
top 0.7%39 / 1,627
Skewb1.822.99
top 0.96%14 / 670
Pyraminx1.944.16
top 1.0%30 / 1,149
3×37.029.86
top 1.4%47 / 2,145
Megaminx45.3151.73
top 3.2%16 / 284
4×437.6742.98
top 9.5%84 / 745
3×3 one-handed15.6821.31
top 9.6%64 / 607
Clock6.698.55
top 9.8%46 / 319
Square-114.8918.36
top 16.2%50 / 254
5×51:17.401:28.00
top 17.2%69 / 364
3×3 Fewest Moves31 moves38.00
top 17.5%29 / 111
6×62:53.402:58.34
top 37.8%74 / 150
7×74:24.134:36.67
top 39.3%61 / 126
3×3 blindfolded2:46.83—
top 48.7%63 / 86
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 17:33—
early days — 2 solves35 / 49

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

NZ North Island Championship 2022: 35.42Wellington Summer 2023: 15.50Palmerston North 2023: 15.70Harrow Autumn 2023: 11.88New Zealand Nationals 2023: 12.46Welcome to Wellington 2024: 9.69NZ South Island Championship 2024: 11.27Palmerston North 2024: 9.00Solve Well In Wellington 2024: 11.88NZ North Island Championship 2024: 10.44Only Cubes in Wellington 2024: 9.11Kubing in Kapiti 2024: 11.24New Zealand Nationals 2024: 9.64Solving in the South Invercargill 2025: 9.64Just Solve in Johnsonville 2025: 8.83Johnsonville FTOpen 2025: 8.01NZ South Island Championship 2025: 9.29Wellington Skewb Showdown 2025: 9.46Wellington Winter 2025: 11.20NZ North Island Championship 2025: 10.50Solve Well in Wellington 2025: 10.08Hasty Hastings 2025: 9.32Wellington Spring 2025: 9.64New Zealand Nationals 2025: 11.07Hurry Up Hutt Valley 2026: 7.91NZ North Island Championship 2026: 10.30NZ Cubing Heptathlon 2026: 9.21NZ South Island Championship 2026: 10.54Wellington Autumn 2026: 9.86GAN New Zealand Nationals 2026: 8.92NZ Cubing in the Capital 2026: 7.02Solve Well in Wellington 2026: 10.397.0235.422 Sep 202210 Oct 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-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.07 away.
  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.82 away.

Targets move as he improves.