People · United Kingdom
Matthew Buckley
2×2 · top 61.2% of 186,767 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022BUCK04
Matthew Buckley has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 7.10, set at Coventry Spring 2025, puts him in the top 61.2% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,156th in the United Kingdom. Across 10 competitions since October 2022, he has put 126 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. His 2×2 best has come down from 11.00 in October 2022 to 7.10, a 35% improvement. Matthew has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United Kingdom | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 7.10 | 9.18 | top 61.2% | 3,156 / 4,895 | |
| 3×3 | 31.54 | 39.92 | top 65.1% | 4,631 / 6,689 | |
| Pyraminx | 17.18 | 19.03 | top 88.2% | 3,387 / 3,656 |
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, 2×2. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 28 Oct 2022First competition: Kewbz UK Championship 2022. A 46.24 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Stevenage July 2025 · 19 Jul 2025
- Coventry Spring 2025 · 24 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Stevenage January 2025 · 25 Jan 2025
- Rubik's UK Championship 2024 · 1 Nov 2024
- Stevenage August 2024 · 10 Aug 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's UK Championship 2023 · 20 Oct 2023
- Peterborough Summer 2023 · 3 Jun 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Stevenage May 2023 · 20 May 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Stevenage January 2023 · 21 Jan 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Kewbz UK Championship 2022 · 28 Oct 2022
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.
- Felix Hincks — met in 25 rounds, never finished ahead
- Adam Swaine — met in 24 rounds, never finished ahead
- Paige Lovell — met in 21 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 1.10 away.
- A sub-30 3×3 single — 177,856 people have one; it is 1.54 away.
Targets move as he improves.