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Oliver Wheat

3×3 · top 1.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2016 · 2016WHEA01

Oliver Wheat has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.89, set at Wiltshire Summer 2025, puts him in the top 1.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 97th in the United Kingdom. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 143 competitions since August 2016, he has put 6,993 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.32 in August 2016 to 6.89, a 66% improvement. Oliver has entered 143 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.2% of 284,439 all-time
6.89
signature single · Wiltshire Summer 2025
6,993
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×36.899.73
top 1.2%97 / 6,689
2×21.453.61
top 1.9%155 / 4,895
3×3 Fewest Moves24 moves27.33
top 4.0%25 / 372
3×3 blindfolded40.4452.87
top 6.9%32 / 311
Skewb3.476.38
top 7.5%171 / 2,421
4×436.1042.61
top 7.8%185 / 2,071
3×3 one-handed15.0819.73
top 8.3%162 / 1,851
3×3 Multi-Blind15 of 15 cubes · 58:45—
top 8.9%24 / 126
4×4 blindfolded3:14.154:27.67
top 9.2%12 / 84
Square-112.1417.56
top 10.1%104 / 778
Clock6.809.29
top 10.2%129 / 1,232
5×51:16.271:25.43
top 16.3%214 / 1,151
5×5 blindfolded8:56.28—
top 16.8%14 / 50
Pyraminx6.028.61
top 20.2%784 / 3,656
Megaminx1:20.641:32.04
top 22.3%266 / 966
6×62:45.442:59.52
top 33.7%194 / 548
7×74:30.024:48.78
top 41.1%197 / 459

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

August Bank Holiday Competition 2016: 20.32UK Championship 2016: 16.92Birmingham Open 2016: 13.60Peterborough Open 2017: 16.95Crawley Open 2017: 13.59World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 12.33Guildford Open 2017: 12.33UK Championship 2017: 13.07Guildford Open 2018: 11.74High Wycombe Open 2018: 12.32Peterborough Open 2018: 12.41WCA European Championship 2018: 11.89August Bank Holiday Competition 2018: 11.80Stratford-upon-Avon Open 2018: 11.44UK Championship 2018: 10.98Chester Open 2019: 9.89British Summer Open 2019: 11.13Leeds Open 2019: 10.11August Bank Holiday Celebration 2019: 10.23UK Championship 2019: 11.47Doncaster Open 2020: 10.44Wakefield Open 2022: 10.10Weston-super-Mare Open 2022: 10.84Stevenage Spring 2022: 9.57Wakefield Spring 2022: 9.41Chester Spring 2022: 9.54Cheltenham Summer 2022: 9.70Stevenage Summer 2022: 10.38Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 9.59Carlisle Summer 2022: 9.23August Bank Holiday Cheltenham 2022: 9.28Wakefield Autumn 2022: 8.70Droitwich Spa Autumn 2022: 8.48Stevenage Autumn A 2022: 9.67Chippenham Autumn 2022: 9.64Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 9.19Irish Championship 2022: 9.09Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2022: 9.34Essex Winter 2022: 9.47Wiltshire Winter 2023: 8.90Stevenage January 2023: 9.32Lincolnshire Winter 2023: 9.39Edinburgh Spring 2023: 9.48Bolton Spring 2023: 9.49Wiltshire Spring 2023: 9.05Wakefield Spring 2023: 9.37Reading Spring 2023: 9.33Weston-super-Mare Spring 2023: 9.40Stevenage May 2023: 8.66Hampshire Spring 2023: 9.85Exeter Summer 2023: 9.26Wiltshire Summer 2023: 8.57Stevenage June 2023: 8.98Suffolk Summer 2023: 9.17Bristol Summer 2023: 8.77Stevenage July 2023: 9.82German Nationals 2023: 9.29Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 9.95August Bank Holiday Cheltenham 2023: 9.06Wiltshire Autumn 2023: 8.91Glasgow Autumn 2023: 9.35Wakefield Autumn 2023: 9.08Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 9.41Guildford Autumn 2023: 10.86Liverpool Winter 2023: 11.01Wiltshire December 2023: 9.49Stevenage January 2024: 9.31Bristol Winter 2024: 9.77Wiltshire February 2024: 8.43Stevenage February 2024: 8.49Hampshire Winter 2024: 9.02Glasgow Spring 2024: 8.99Wiltshire March 2024: 10.25Stevenage April 2024: 9.13Stevenage May 2024: 9.52Weston-super-Mare Spring 2024: 8.66Stevenage June 2024: 8.45Wakefield Summer 2024: 8.43Bolton Summer 2024: 9.52Warm Up Portugalete 2024: 9.43Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 10.22Birmingham Summer 2024: 9.09Kewbz UK Open 2024: 10.76Battersea Autumn 2024: 10.89Stevenage October 2024: 9.35Hampshire Autumn 2024: 10.36Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 9.82Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2024: 7.95Wiltshire November 2024: 8.39Bristol Winter Open 2024: 10.23Weston-super-Mare Winter 2025: 10.62Edinburgh Winter 2025: 8.90Wiltshire Spring 2025: 9.51Birmingham Spring 2025: 9.24Weston-super-Mare Spring 2025: 10.84Coventry Spring 2025: 9.91Kewbz Scottish Championship 2025: 10.28Warm Up Seattle 2025: 8.02Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 11.46Wiltshire Summer 2025: 6.89Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 11.00Bristol August 2025: 10.76Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2025: 9.90Stevenage October 2025: 9.44Stevenage 10th Anniversary 2025: 9.79Wiltshire Winter 2025: 9.26Weston-super-Mare Winter 2026: 10.16Stevenage January 2026: 7.93Devon Winter 2026: 10.54Wiltshire Spring 2026: 9.38French Championship 2026: 11.36Stevenage May 2026: 9.88Weston-super-Mare Spring 2026: 10.29Bristol June 2026: 9.57Farewell Strathclyde University 2026: 10.11Wiltshire Summer 2026: 9.57Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 10.16South Wales Summer 2026: 9.42Bristol August 2026: 9.05Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 9.186.8920.3227 Aug 201628 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 0.89 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.45 away.

Targets move as he improves.