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Nicola Boutcher

Pyraminx · top 93.0% of 129,321 all-time · competing since April 2025 · 2025BOUT02

Nicola Boutcher has been competing for a year. Her best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 20.05, set at Invercargill Summer 2026, puts her in the top 93.0% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,101st in New Zealand. Across 2 competitions since April 2025, she has put 17 official solves on the record across three events. Her 2×2 best has come down from 19.08 in April 2025 to 17.04, an 11% improvement. Nicola has entered two competitions.

Pyraminx
best event — top 93.0% of 129,321 all-time
20.05
signature single · Invercargill Summer 2026
17
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNew Zealand
Pyraminx20.05
early days — 3 solves1,101 / 1,141
2×217.0421.36
top 93.1%1,536 / 1,615
3×31:24.991:56.74
top 97.5%2,069 / 2,095

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

NZ South Island Championship 2025: 19.08Invercargill Summer 2026: 17.0417.0419.0812 Apr 202531 Jan 2026

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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-20 Pyraminx single — 120,122 people have one; it is 0.05 away.
  • A sub-15 2×2 single — 169,048 people have one; it is 2.04 away.

Targets move as she improves.