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Richard Taylor

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 17.4% of 12,294 all-time · competing since August 2015 · 2015TAYL04

Richard Taylor has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 31 moves, set at FMC Europe 2025, puts him in the top 17.4% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 82nd in the United Kingdom. Across 45 competitions since August 2015, he has put 455 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:02.66 in August 2015 to 20.65, a 67% improvement. Richard has entered 45 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 17.4% of 12,294 all-time
31 moves
signature single · FMC Europe 2025
455
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×3 Fewest Moves31 moves37.33
top 17.4%82 / 372
2×24.858.82
top 37.4%1,986 / 4,895
3×320.6525.98
top 41.8%2,889 / 6,689
4×41:29.601:51.37
top 63.3%1,386 / 2,071
5×53:05.693:41.84
top 79.9%997 / 1,151
Skewb18.2628.83
top 86.7%2,138 / 2,421

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 2015: 1:02.66UK Championship 2016: 41.12Birmingham Open 2016: 42.64Newcastle-under-Lyme Open 2017: 40.71Crawley Open 2017: 41.57London Open 2017: 41.24August Bank Holiday Competition 2017: 36.04Guildford Open 2017: 38.19UK Championship 2017: 32.84Manchester Open 2018: 32.65Guildford Open 2018: 36.23High Wycombe Open 2018: 30.66August Bank Holiday Competition 2018: 32.44Stratford-upon-Avon Open 2018: 29.60UK Championship 2018: 30.53Fontwell Open 2019: 27.41Lincoln Open 2019: 29.46High Wycombe Open 2019: 28.51August Bank Holiday Celebration 2019: 29.35UK Championship 2019: 28.31Guildford Open 2020: 29.74Stevenage Spring 2022: 20.65Stevenage Summer 2022: 21.87Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 25.79Guildford Winter 2023: 28.59Reading Spring 2023: 28.22Stevenage May 2023: 25.91Stevenage June 2023: 25.20Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 26.06Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 24.73Guildford Autumn 2023: 21.79Stevenage February 2024: 27.78Stevenage Newcomers Saturday 2024: 23.07Stevenage June 2024: 26.81Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 26.40Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 26.29Stevenage December 2024: 26.62Stevenage 10th Anniversary 2025: 26.30Wiltshire Winter 2025: 25.71Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 23.5720.651:02.6629 Aug 201516 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-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.85 away.
  • A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 0.65 away.

Targets move as he improves.