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Oscar Childs

3×3 · top 4.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2021 · 2021CHIL02

Oscar Childs has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.82, set at Invercargill Summer 2026, puts him in the top 4.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 117th in New Zealand. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since April 2021, he has put 1,630 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.53 in April 2021 to 8.82, a 50% improvement. Oscar has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.5% of 284,439 all-time
8.82
signature single · Invercargill Summer 2026
1,630
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNew Zealand
3×38.8210.52
top 4.5%117 / 2,095
2×22.063.94
top 5.2%120 / 1,615
Square-111.1117.01
top 8.2%30 / 251
Pyraminx4.327.71
top 9.3%142 / 1,141
Megaminx58.861:11.56
top 9.4%43 / 283
4×437.8445.58
top 9.6%84 / 722
3×3 blindfolded55.331:11.03
top 11.6%20 / 86
3×3 one-handed18.8125.73
top 17.3%109 / 600
Skewb4.927.02
top 17.5%140 / 666
5×51:19.801:31.39
top 18.9%80 / 355
Clock8.879.51
top 19.3%78 / 303
3×3 Multi-Blind13 of 17 cubes · 51:49—
top 19.8%13 / 49
4×4 blindfolded5:16.51—
early days — 3 solves10 / 23
7×73:54.034:23.51
top 28.5%46 / 126
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves39.00
top 33.6%49 / 111
6×62:56.173:04.14
top 39.2%78 / 149
5×5 blindfolded18:27.00—
early days — 1 solve8 / 11

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

NZ South Island Championship 2021: 17.53Southern Scramble Dunedin 2021: 19.77Lyttelton Spring 2021: 15.81NZ South Island Championship 2022: 13.81Lyttelton Spring 2022: 12.34Southernmost Solving 2023: 12.81NZ South Island Championship 2023: 12.49Ōtepoti Winter 2023: 12.77Southern Solves Invercargill 2024: 11.80NZ South Island Championship 2024: 12.15Ōtepoti Big Cubes 2024: 11.54Waihōpai Winter 2024: 9.77New Zealand Nationals 2024: 11.39Solving in the South Invercargill 2025: 11.17Just Solve in Johnsonville 2025: 10.55Big and Blind Queenstown 2025: 9.81NZ South Island Championship 2025: 10.62Waihopai Winter 2025: 9.90Eyes Open Open - Ōtautahi 2025: 10.34Invercargill Summer 2026: 8.82GAN New Zealand Nationals 2026: 9.058.8219.7717 Apr 202110 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.82 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.06 away.

Targets move as he improves.