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Oli Sweeney

3×3 · top 2.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2024 · 2024SWEE01

Oli Sweeney has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.63, set at Rubik's Irish Championship 2026, puts him in the top 2.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 40th in Ireland. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since February 2024, he has put 959 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.89 in February 2024 to 7.63, a 65% improvement. Oli has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.2% of 284,439 all-time
7.63
signature single · Rubik's Irish Championship 2026
959
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIreland
3×37.639.42
top 2.2%40 / 1,427
Pyraminx3.606.01
top 5.9%82 / 911
2×22.223.40
top 6.4%99 / 1,163
4×439.9549.01
top 12.1%73 / 579
3×3 one-handed17.0123.40
top 12.6%44 / 448
Megaminx1:23.601:38.53
top 24.1%74 / 283
Skewb5.957.78
top 25.4%174 / 624
5×51:31.851:46.85
top 28.8%87 / 296
Clock11.0713.15
top 30.4%106 / 331
Square-122.6133.16
top 33.8%76 / 194

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

Corduff Cubing Saturday 2024: 21.8950 and Counting Ireland 2024: 16.30Rubik's Irish Championship 2024: 13.55Dublin Summer Solving 2024: 12.54Meath for Speed 2024: 13.58Dublin Winter Solving 2025: 10.94Marble City Cubing IE 2025: 9.38Don't Go Slow in Wicklow 2025: 9.66Dublin Summer Solving 2025: 7.68Rubik's Irish Championship 2025: 9.05Dublin Autumn Solving 2025: 8.89Termonfeckin Fast 2025: 9.18Solving by the Barrow 2025: 9.43Leopardstown Cube Races 2025: 9.52Dublin Pick 'N' Mix 2026: 8.92Solving Ferry Fast Rosslare 2026: 7.84Rubik's Irish Championship 2026: 7.637.6321.8917 Feb 202424 Jul 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.63 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.60 away.

Targets move as he improves.