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Oliver Crook

3×3 · top 0.71% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2022 · 2022CROO02

Oliver Crook has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.34, set at Kewbz UK Championship 2026, puts him in the top 0.71% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 470th in the United States. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since December 2022, he has put 795 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.52 in December 2022 to 6.34, a 62% improvement. Oliver has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.71% of 284,439 all-time
6.34
signature single · Kewbz UK Championship 2026
795
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.347.98
top 0.71%470 / 59,724
2×21.192.39
top 1.0%419 / 40,951
Pyraminx2.133.49
top 1.4%372 / 28,708
Skewb2.634.54
top 3.4%517 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed13.3816.75
top 5.0%713 / 15,683
4×437.0844.42
top 8.8%1,315 / 19,072
Clock7.8611.56
top 14.5%1,117 / 8,927
Megaminx1:19.361:29.29
top 21.3%1,472 / 7,841
5×51:37.521:42.77
top 33.5%2,657 / 9,401
Square-126.8030.32
top 43.0%2,795 / 6,743
3×3 Fewest Moves40 moves—
early days — 2 solves1,031 / 2,040

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

Rocky Top 2022: 16.52AlphaCubing A 2023: 8.64Mind Sports Olympiad Cubing 2023: 10.44Stevenage November 2023: 9.22Stevenage January 2024: 8.21Stevenage May 2024: 8.87Stevenage June 2024: 7.19Stevenage Beginners September A 2024: 7.98Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 7.93Stevenage March 2025: 7.44Stevenage July 2025: 6.91Stevenage March 2026: 7.56Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 6.346.3416.523 Dec 202228 Aug 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 0.34 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.19 away.

Targets move as he improves.