People · Ireland
Maeve Hickey
3×3 · top 2.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2017 · 2017HICK06
Maeve Hickey has been competing for 9 years. Their best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.63, set at Tuam Open Sunday 2022, puts them in the top 2.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 40th in Ireland. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since December 2017, they have put 1,337 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, their 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Their 3×3 best has come down from 15.39 in December 2017 to 7.63, a 50% improvement. Maeve has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Ireland | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 7.63 | 9.98 | top 2.2% | 40 / 1,427 | |
| Pyraminx | 3.25 | 4.74 | top 4.5% | 64 / 911 | |
| 4×4 | 35.89 | 42.48 | top 7.6% | 47 / 579 | |
| 2×2 | 2.36 | 3.17 | top 7.6% | 116 / 1,163 | |
| Megaminx | 58.18 | 1:02.54 | top 9.0% | 33 / 283 | |
| Skewb | 4.18 | 6.02 | top 12.2% | 88 / 624 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 17.01 | 20.41 | top 12.6% | 44 / 448 | |
| 5×5 | 1:14.85 | 1:20.24 | top 15.2% | 46 / 296 | |
| Clock | 8.20 | 10.53 | top 16.2% | 60 / 331 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 1:33.92 | 1:52.61 | top 24.5% | 22 / 59 | |
| 6×6 | 2:56.19 | 3:06.62 | top 39.2% | 62 / 142 | |
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 48 moves | — | early days — 2 solves | 61 / 88 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 27 Nov 2022Three personal bests in one day at Tuam Open Sunday 2022.
- 4 Nov 2022Three personal bests in one day at Irish Championship 2022.
- 21 Aug 2022Four personal bests in one day at Dublin Open Sunday 2022.
- 2 Jul 2022Four personal bests in one day at Don't DNF Dublin 2022.
- 9 Apr 2022Three personal bests in one day at Seaside Solving Saturday 2022.
- 27 Nov 2021First sub-10 3×3: 9.83 at Tuam Re-Open Saturday 2021.
Competitions
- Dublin Pick 'N' Mix 2026 · 17 Jan 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Belfast Autumn 2025 · 15 Nov 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Rebel County Colours 2025 · 27 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's Irish Championship 2025 · 15 Aug 2025
- Don't Fail Kinsale 2024 · 30 Nov 2024
- Solving by the Shannon 2023 · 22 Jul 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- It's a Long Way to Tipperary 2023 · 13 May 2023
- Don't Lockup Loch Garman 2023 · 15 Apr 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Turnin' in Termonfeckin Sunday 2023 · 12 Mar 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Belfast Winter 2023 · 14 Jan 2023
- Tuam Open Sunday 2022 · 27 Nov 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Irish Championship 2022 · 4 Nov 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2022 · 8 Oct 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Dublin Open Sunday 2022 · 21 Aug 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Don't DNF Dublin 2022 · 2 Jul 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Seaside Solving Saturday 2022 · 9 Apr 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Tuam Re-Open Saturday 2021 · 27 Nov 2021 — 6 personal bests set
- Every Event Éire 2019 · 2 Nov 2019 — 5 personal bests set
- Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2019 · 31 Aug 2019 — 7 personal bests set
- Irish Championship 2019 · 22 Jun 2019 — 8 personal bests set
- Irish Championship 2018 · 14 Jul 2018 — 5 personal bests set
- Dublin Open 2017 · 2 Dec 2017 — 1 personal best set
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 their.
- Ben Timmons — met in 188 rounds, finished ahead 99 times
- Namuun Natsagdorj — met in 173 rounds, finished ahead 75 times
- Richard Madden — met in 166 rounds, finished ahead 18 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.63 away.
- A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.25 away.
Targets move as they improves.