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Riley Wicks

Pyraminx · top 0.44% of 130,891 all-time · competing since June 2022 · 2022WICK05

Riley Wicks has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.52, set at Wellington Winter 2025, puts him in the top 0.44% of the 130,891 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 18th in New Zealand. Until March 2013, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since June 2022, he has put 1,454 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 64% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.83 in June 2022 to 7.20, a 79% improvement. Riley has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.44% of 130,891 all-time
1.52
signature single · Wellington Winter 2025
1,454
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNew Zealand
Pyraminx1.522.46
top 0.44%18 / 1,149
2×20.992.51
top 0.54%31 / 1,627
Skewb1.774.91
top 0.86%11 / 670
3×37.208.83
top 1.6%52 / 2,145
Clock3.634.92
top 1.7%14 / 319
4×430.5536.25
top 3.2%39 / 745
Megaminx46.4152.40
top 3.6%20 / 284
Square-19.1414.94
top 4.7%15 / 254
3×3 one-handed13.3217.69
top 5.0%45 / 607
5×51:01.241:04.06
top 6.3%31 / 364
7×72:48.362:59.16
top 7.4%15 / 126
6×62:01.792:08.53
top 11.7%25 / 150
3×3 Fewest Moves32 moves37.33
top 20.4%37 / 111

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

Puzzling Porirua 2022: 33.83NZ North Island Championship 2022: 19.95Wellington Summer 2023: 11.18Palmerston North 2023: 11.23New Zealand Nationals 2023: 8.85Welcome to Wellington 2024: 8.82NZ North Island Championship 2024: 7.91Only Cubes in Wellington 2024: 8.57Kubing in Kapiti 2024: 7.83Hasty Hastings 2024: 8.98A New Year in Auckland 2025: 8.59Wellington Winter 2025: 8.99NZ North Island Championship 2025: 7.44NZ Cubing in the Capital 2025: 8.44Hasty Hastings 2025: 8.83Wellington Spring 2025: 8.11Farewellington 2025: 9.00NZ North Island Championship 2026: 8.74NZ Cubing Heptathlon 2026: 7.38Wellington Autumn 2026: 7.88GAN New Zealand Nationals 2026: 8.01NZ Cubing in the Capital 2026: 7.20Solve Well in Wellington 2026: 8.157.2033.8311 Jun 202210 Oct 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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.52 away.
  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.77 away.

Targets move as he improves.