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Rían Burke

3×3 · top 0.47% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2019 · 2019BURK05

Rían Burke has been competing for 7 years. Their best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.97, set at Re-Laois the Cubers 2025, puts them in the top 0.47% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 10th in Ireland. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 60 competitions since August 2019, they have put 4,381 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, their 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 89% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Their 3×3 best has come down from 25.60 in August 2019 to 5.97, a 77% improvement. They have entered 60 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.47% of 284,439 all-time
5.97
signature single · Re-Laois the Cubers 2025
4,381
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 89% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIreland
3×35.978.77
top 0.47%10 / 1,427
2×21.061.94
top 0.68%13 / 1,163
Clock3.103.76
top 0.89%3 / 331
Square-16.398.21
top 1.1%1 / 194
Skewb1.892.89
top 1.1%8 / 624
3×3 one-handed10.1714.79
top 1.2%8 / 448
Pyraminx2.293.80
top 1.7%27 / 911
4×429.8135.11
top 2.7%17 / 579
Megaminx52.441:00.58
top 6.2%27 / 283
3×3 Fewest Moves26 moves31.67
top 6.2%5 / 88
5×51:02.771:07.45
top 7.0%23 / 296
3×3 blindfolded1:03.281:58.34
top 14.1%14 / 59
6×62:07.412:27.73
top 14.2%21 / 142
7×73:40.223:54.45
top 23.6%24 / 108
3×3 Multi-Blind7 of 7 cubes · 58:30—
top 29.2%11 / 24
4×4 blindfolded16:35.00—
early days — 3 solves13 / 16

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

Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2019: 25.60Tuam Re-Open Sunday 2021: 10.93Seaside Solving Sunday 2022: 12.23Don't DNF Dublin 2022: 10.22Cubing with the Cats Sunday 2022: 9.85Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2022: 11.23Irish Championship 2022: 10.39Tuam Open Saturday 2022: 9.30Belfast Winter 2023: 8.84Cork Spring 2023: 8.57Turnin' in Termonfeckin Sunday 2023: 10.08Don't Lockup Loch Garman 2023: 9.29Irish Championship 2023: 9.16Solving by the Shannon 2023: 9.13Cubing with the Cats Saturday 2023: 9.04Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2023: 9.12Mayo Cubing 2023: 8.61Meath Autumn 2023: 9.79Tuam Winter 2023: 7.92Don't Fail Kinsale 2023: 10.99Rebel County Cubing 2024: 10.41Gort-a Go Fast 2024: 8.74Corduff Cubing Saturday 2024: 9.12Turnin' Offaly Fast 2024: 9.7850 and Counting Ireland 2024: 8.55Please Be Qualified Ireland 2024: 9.30Rubik's Irish Championship 2024: 8.70Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 9.49Dublin Summer Solving 2024: 7.43Mayo Cubing 2024: 8.52Tír Chonaill Cubing 2024: 7.82Marble City Cubing IE 2025: 8.94Gort-a Go Fast 2025: 8.30Let's Go Carlow 2025: 8.84UCD Cube Days 2025: 7.75Don't Go Slow in Wicklow 2025: 7.59Castletown Showdown 2025: 7.70Dublin Summer Solving 2025: 8.02Cubing with the Kilkenny Cats 2025: 8.05Rubik's Irish Championship 2025: 8.93Mayo Cubing 2025: 8.11Rebel County Colours 2025: 7.48Re-Laois the Cubers 2025: 5.97Solving by the Barrow 2025: 7.94Leopardstown Cube Races 2025: 7.53Dublin Pick 'N' Mix 2026: 8.12Gort-a Go Fast 2026: 7.36TUD Unscramble Day 2026: 7.38Solving Ferry Fast Rosslare 2026: 8.04Leeds Spring 2026: 8.52Re-Laois the Cubers 2026: 7.28Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 7.91Rubik's Irish Championship 2026: 7.45Éire 100 2026: 7.695.9725.6031 Aug 201922 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 their.

Next targets

  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.97 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.06 away.

Targets move as they improves.