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Oscar Bickmore

2×2 · top 2.5% of 186,767 all-time · competing since March 2023 · 2023BICK01

Oscar Bickmore has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.57, set at Edinburgh Autumn 2025, puts him in the top 2.5% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 187th in the United Kingdom. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since March 2023, he has put 883 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 58% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 2×2 best has come down from 2.43 in March 2023 to 1.57, a 35% improvement. Oscar has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 2.5% of 186,767 all-time
1.57
signature single · Edinburgh Autumn 2025
883
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
2×21.572.21
top 2.5%187 / 4,895
3×39.3811.69
top 5.8%428 / 6,689
Pyraminx3.735.83
top 6.4%244 / 3,656
3×3 one-handed16.1923.10
top 10.7%211 / 1,851
4×441.5348.31
top 13.9%325 / 2,071
Skewb4.587.53
top 15.1%351 / 2,421
5×51:19.891:29.46
top 19.0%251 / 1,151
Megaminx1:26.331:48.25
top 25.8%296 / 966
6×62:32.732:50.47
top 27.0%164 / 548
Square-124.6629.85
top 38.4%346 / 778
7×74:22.624:44.10
top 38.6%177 / 459
3×3 Fewest Moves40 moves—
early days — 2 solves196 / 372

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

Edinburgh Spring 2023: 2.43Glasgow Spring 2023: 1.94Edinburgh Summer 2023: 2.08North Highlands Summer 2023: 2.29Glasgow Autumn 2023: 2.27Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 1.78Edinburgh Winter 2024: 1.95Glasgow Spring 2024: 1.85Glasgow Favourites Evening I 2024: 2.26Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 1.97Edinburgh Winter 2025: 1.60Kewbz Scottish Championship 2025: 1.79Newcastle upon Tyne Summer 2025: 2.02Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 2.76Edinburgh Autumn 2025: 1.57Glasgow Favourites Evening IV 2025: 2.411.572.764 Mar 202324 Oct 2025

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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.57 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.38 away.

Targets move as he improves.