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Oliver Richards

Megaminx · top 0.18% of 34,786 all-time · competing since January 2022 · 2022RICH02

Oliver Richards has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the Megaminx: a personal-best single of 29.59, set at Hampshire Autumn 2024, puts him in the top 0.18% of the 34,786 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3rd in the United Kingdom. Until July 2018, no official Megaminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 37 competitions since January 2022, he has put 2,401 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.87 in January 2022 to 8.04, a 26% improvement. Oliver has entered 37 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Megaminx
best event — top 0.18% of 34,786 all-time
29.59
signature single · Hampshire Autumn 2024
2,401
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
Megaminx29.5938.87
top 0.18%3 / 966
Pyraminx1.765.00
top 0.76%33 / 3,656
2×21.503.31
top 2.2%169 / 4,895
3×38.049.96
top 2.9%231 / 6,689
Skewb3.045.68
top 5.2%115 / 2,421
4×433.8937.79
top 5.7%136 / 2,071
5×51:01.381:07.63
top 6.3%85 / 1,151
3×3 blindfolded40.741:15.12
top 7.0%34 / 311
3×3 one-handed15.0619.30
top 8.2%161 / 1,851
Clock6.809.51
top 10.2%129 / 1,232
7×73:04.453:14.16
top 11.8%57 / 459
6×62:04.222:14.50
top 12.8%80 / 548
Square-116.8926.18
top 20.7%203 / 778
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves33.67
top 23.4%108 / 372
4×4 blindfolded7:15.43—
early days — 3 solves49 / 84
5×5 blindfolded17:32.00—
early days — 2 solves31 / 50
3×3 Multi-Blind4 of 5 cubes · 22:34—
early days — 2 solves85 / 126

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

Wakefield Open 2022: 10.87Cheltenham Summer 2022: 11.14August Bank Holiday Cheltenham 2022: 9.48Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 9.03Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2022: 9.44Wiltshire Winter 2023: 10.58Wiltshire Spring 2023: 9.11Weston-super-Mare Spring 2023: 10.20Exeter Summer 2023: 9.39Bristol Summer 2023: 9.77Wiltshire Autumn 2023: 10.09Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 10.90Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2023: 10.07Wiltshire December 2023: 9.62Bristol Winter 2024: 9.46Wiltshire February 2024: 9.64Hampshire Winter 2024: 10.81Wiltshire March 2024: 10.15Bristol Summer 2024: 9.04Norwegian Championship 2024: 8.57Wiltshire September 2024: 9.91Hampshire Autumn 2024: 9.44Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 10.25Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2024: 9.06Wiltshire November 2024: 10.45Weston-super-Mare Winter 2025: 9.46Hampshire Winter 2025: 10.56Norwegian Championship 2025: 9.10Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 8.04Hampshire Autumn 2025: 8.45Devon Winter 2026: 11.24Weston-super-Mare Spring 2026: 8.40Hampshire Summer 2026: 8.99Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 9.378.0411.2429 Jan 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-25 Megaminx single — 8 people have one; it is 4.59 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.76 away.

Targets move as he improves.