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Melanie Johnson

Pyraminx · top 3.4% of 130,891 all-time · competing since January 2025 · 2025JOHN01

Melanie Johnson has been competing for a year. Her best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.92, set at Darlington Spring 2026, puts her in the top 3.4% of the 130,891 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 78th in Germany. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since January 2025, she has put 1,064 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 91% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 12.92 in January 2025 to 11.00, a 15% improvement. Melanie has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 3.4% of 130,891 all-time
2.92
signature single · Darlington Spring 2026
1,064
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGermany
Pyraminx2.925.06
top 3.4%78 / 2,020
2×22.024.42
top 4.9%210 / 2,931
Megaminx51.111:01.88
top 5.6%36 / 798
Skewb3.676.14
top 8.8%114 / 1,192
3×311.0013.94
top 10.5%543 / 4,182
Clock8.289.40
top 16.4%101 / 647
4×450.0456.73
top 24.9%482 / 1,966
Square-118.7126.81
top 25.1%122 / 541
3×3 one-handed23.3633.36
top 29.8%399 / 1,328
5×51:50.232:04.44
top 42.8%458 / 1,175
6×64:12.974:30.98
top 69.9%361 / 595
3×3 Fewest Moves52 moves56.67
early days — 3 solves302 / 343
7×77:26.127:53.91
top 84.0%392 / 521

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

Edinburgh Winter 2025: 12.92Manchester February 2025: 20.36Leeds Spring 2025: 16.49Manchester Spring 2025: 15.28Coventry Spring 2025: 14.18Kewbz Scottish Championship 2025: 13.59Newcastle upon Tyne Summer 2025: 14.95Geselliges Gewürfel Göttingen 2025: 11.68Edinburgh Autumn 2025: 12.80Belfast Autumn 2025: 12.69Glasgow Autumn Open 2025: 13.65Edinburgh Winter 2026: 11.00Bolton Spring 2026: 13.17Darlington Spring 2026: 13.51Farewell Strathclyde University 2026: 12.99Newcastle upon Tyne Summer 2026: 13.13Brampton Autumn 2026: 12.6111.0020.3611 Jan 202520 Sep 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,497 people have one; it is 0.92 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.02 away.

Targets move as she improves.