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Mark Gregan

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 4.0% of 12,294 all-time · competing since April 2019 · 2019GREG04

Mark Gregan has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 24 moves, set at Rubik's Irish Championship FMC 2025, puts him in the top 4.0% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3rd in Ireland. Across 34 competitions since April 2019, he has put 884 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.54 in April 2019 to 9.17, a 68% improvement. Mark has entered 34 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 4.0% of 12,294 all-time
24 moves
signature single · Rubik's Irish Championship FMC 2025
884
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIreland
3×3 Fewest Moves24 moves26.67
top 4.0%3 / 88
3×39.1710.73
top 5.3%80 / 1,427
2×22.513.35
top 9.0%130 / 1,163
Pyraminx6.519.87
top 23.9%276 / 911
4×452.291:00.13
top 27.5%132 / 579
Skewb8.0215.67
top 41.4%274 / 624
3×3 one-handed31.5539.49
top 50.2%197 / 448

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

Cork Open 2019: 28.54Irish Championship 2019: 27.47Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2019: 26.10Every Event Éire 2019: 19.62Cubing with the Cats Saturday 2022: 14.28Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2022: 14.81Irish Championship 2022: 11.02Tuam Open Sunday 2022: 10.84Cork Spring 2023: 11.77It's a Long Way to Tipperary 2023: 12.21Irish Championship 2023: 12.59Meath Autumn 2023: 11.55Corduff Cubing Saturday 2024: 12.36Turnin' Offaly Fast 2024: 12.90UCD Cube Days 2024: 11.14Please Be Qualified Ireland 2024: 11.66Turnin' in Termonfeckin Sunday 2024: 10.78Rubik's Irish Championship 2024: 10.41Midlands Mix-up 2024: 9.17Cubing with the Kilkenny Cats Sunday 2024: 10.06Meath for Speed 2024: 9.55Dublin Winter Solving 2025: 10.48Marble City Cubing IE 2025: 10.85Let's Go Carlow 2025: 10.76UCD Cube Days 2025: 11.56Don't Go Slow in Wicklow 2025: 11.03PBs in Phibblestown 2025: 12.24Rubik's Irish Championship 2025: 11.189.1728.5413 Apr 201915 Aug 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.

  • Ben Timmons — met in 157 rounds, finished ahead 30 times
  • Mary Hennessy — met in 147 rounds, finished ahead 70 times
  • Conor Smith — met in 134 rounds, finished ahead 45 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.17 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.51 away.

Targets move as he improves.