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Michael Adams

3×3 · top 4.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2022 · 2022ADAM15

Michael Adams has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.04, set at Tramsheds IV: Summer Saturday 2025, puts him in the top 4.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 459th in Australia. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 37 competitions since August 2022, he has put 1,117 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 15 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.46 in August 2022 to 9.04, a 27% improvement. Michael has entered 37 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.9% of 284,439 all-time
9.04
signature single · Tramsheds IV: Summer Saturday 2025
1,117
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×39.0412.70
top 4.9%459 / 11,709
Square-19.7019.14
top 5.6%57 / 899
Pyraminx4.426.89
top 9.8%451 / 5,993
2×22.754.18
top 11.5%858 / 8,567
Megaminx1:03.351:17.67
top 11.7%147 / 1,277
Clock7.219.41
top 11.8%142 / 1,095
5×51:12.901:19.54
top 13.7%186 / 1,356
Skewb4.437.61
top 13.9%364 / 3,534
3×3 blindfolded1:04.46—
top 14.5%70 / 394
4×442.1947.54
top 14.7%369 / 3,051
3×3 one-handed20.2325.09
top 21.1%479 / 2,659
7×74:11.524:49.59
top 34.8%166 / 523
6×62:48.153:05.45
top 35.2%215 / 641
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves—
top 44.7%205 / 468
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 7 cubes · 53:56—
early days — 3 solves106 / 180
4×4 blindfolded11:26.00—
early days — 2 solves67 / 96

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

Sydney Winter Saturday 2022: 12.46Maitland Spring 2022: 14.61Cubing at The Cube Saturday 2023: 12.85North Sydney Cube Day 2023: 13.58Marrickville Many May Open 2023: 12.18Cubing in the Dilly 2023: 12.08Maitland Winter 2023: 12.35Warm Up Sydney Saturday 2023: 11.74Cubing at Tramsheds Saturday 2023: 12.07Simple Sydney Saturday 2023: 12.85Australian Nationals 2023: 12.96Sydney Summer 2023: 12.71Cubing at The Cube 2024: 11.20Going Back to the Gong 2024: 13.06Solving In Sale 2024: 11.42Kogarah Cube Day Sunday 2024: 12.64Tramsheds II: May Saturday 2024: 12.19Kiama Winter 2024: 11.60Australian Nationals 2024: 13.18Puzzling Parramatta 2024: 11.73Tramsheds III: August Sunday 2024: 11.81Cubing in Wollondilly 2024: 9.97Sydney Spring Sunday 2024: 12.80Cubing at The Cube 2025: 11.47Tramsheds IV: Summer Saturday 2025: 9.04Solving in Sale 2025: 12.13NSW State Championship 2025: 12.37Cubing at The Cube 2026: 11.36NxNjoyable Sydney Gathering 2026: 13.849.0414.6127 Aug 202228 Mar 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.04 away.
  • A sub-8 Square-1 single — 766 people have one; it is 1.70 away.

Targets move as he improves.