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Rory Pappas

2×2 · top 2.2% of 186,767 all-time · competing since February 2024 · 2024PAPP01

Rory Pappas has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.52, set at Let's Go Carlow 2025, puts him in the top 2.2% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 44th in Ireland. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since February 2024, he has put 1,162 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.65 in February 2024 to 9.10, a 62% improvement. Rory has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 2.2% of 186,767 all-time
1.52
signature single · Let's Go Carlow 2025
1,162
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIreland
2×21.523.91
top 2.2%44 / 1,163
Pyraminx3.265.15
top 4.5%66 / 911
3×39.1011.01
top 5.1%78 / 1,427
Skewb4.106.10
top 11.6%84 / 624
Clock7.969.09
top 15.1%58 / 331
4×443.9951.74
top 17.0%94 / 579
3×3 one-handed21.9526.92
top 25.9%95 / 448
5×51:42.641:55.20
top 37.3%109 / 296
Megaminx1:46.181:59.02
top 38.2%109 / 283
Square-140.451:02.80
top 65.9%130 / 194
7×77:11.86—
early days — 3 solves91 / 108
6×65:33.78—
early days — 3 solves126 / 142
3×3 Fewest Moves56 moves—
early days — 1 solve79 / 88

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

Cork Spring 2024: 23.65UCD Cube Days 2024: 14.9350 and Counting Ireland 2024: 14.86Belfast Summer 2024: 12.70Dublin Summer Solving 2024: 12.96Mayo Cubing 2024: 13.23Meath for Speed 2024: 10.23Marble City Cubing IE 2025: 10.38Let's Go Carlow 2025: 10.24UCD Cube Days 2025: 11.59Don't Go Slow in Wicklow 2025: 10.48Dublin Summer Solving 2025: 10.43Rubik's Irish Championship 2025: 11.19Rebel County Colours 2025: 10.89Termonfeckin Fast 2025: 11.91Re-Laois the Cubers 2025: 10.07Belfast Autumn 2025: 10.58Solving by the Barrow 2025: 11.60Leopardstown Cube Races 2025: 11.83Lets Go Carlow 2026: 10.62Cork Spring 2026: 10.81TUD Unscramble Day 2026: 11.62Don't Go Slow in Wicklow 2026: 10.29Rubik's Irish Championship 2026: 9.24Éire 100 2026: 9.109.1023.6524 Feb 202422 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.52 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.26 away.

Targets move as he improves.