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Rhynard Steyn

Pyraminx · top 1.4% of 130,891 all-time · competing since November 2024 · 2024STEY02

Rhynard Steyn has been competing for a year. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.14, set at Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Q3 2026, puts him in the top 1.4% of the 130,891 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7th in South Africa. Until July 2011, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 14 competitions since November 2024, he has put 836 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 37.95 in November 2024 to 9.05, a 76% improvement. Rhynard has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 1.4% of 130,891 all-time
2.14
signature single · Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Q3 2026
836
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 standingSouth Africa
Pyraminx2.143.57
top 1.4%7 / 958
2×21.363.05
top 1.6%12 / 1,525
Skewb2.395.73
top 2.5%12 / 444
3×39.0511.13
top 5.0%49 / 2,187
4×438.5243.63
top 10.4%30 / 495
3×3 one-handed18.9225.22
top 17.6%51 / 473
5×51:18.671:30.81
top 18.2%27 / 225
Clock8.699.72
top 18.4%23 / 153
Megaminx1:19.341:23.89
top 21.3%36 / 268
Square-117.4922.26
top 22.1%27 / 121
6×63:12.643:27.91
top 47.1%29 / 87
7×75:21.505:33.54
top 57.4%27 / 73

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

Cubestuff Challenge Q4 Menlyn Park 2024: 37.95CuBeaulieu Craze Comeback 2025: 14.77CubingZA Nationals 2025: 11.63Beginner & Blind Johannesburg 2025: 12.17Mother City Cubing Cape Town 2025: 11.41Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Q2 2025: 12.25Cubestuff Centurion Q3 2025: 10.63Menlo Cubing Open 2025: 9.58Howick Spring 2025: 10.62Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Q3 2026: 10.20GAN WCA African Championship 2026: 9.059.0537.9523 Nov 202424 Sep 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-2 Pyraminx single — 1,497 people have one; it is 0.14 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.36 away.

Targets move as he improves.