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Rufus Cripps

3×3 · top 0.27% of 288,433 all-time · competing since August 2022 · 2022CRIP01

Rufus Cripps has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.55, set at Bristol June 2026, puts him in the top 0.27% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 30th in the United Kingdom. Until March 2013, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 54 competitions since August 2022, he has put 2,923 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one; 97% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.11 in August 2022 to 5.55, a 69% improvement. Rufus has entered 54 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.27% of 288,433 all-time
5.55
signature single · Bristol June 2026
2,923
official solves on the record
18%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 97% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×35.556.95
top 0.27%30 / 6,785
Pyraminx1.482.09
top 0.4%21 / 3,704
2×21.132.34
top 0.85%72 / 4,946
3×3 one-handed10.2113.59
top 1.2%25 / 1,861
Clock3.334.87
top 1.2%25 / 1,255
Skewb2.344.45
top 2.4%57 / 2,439
Megaminx43.0247.34
top 2.4%41 / 998
4×430.4434.82
top 3.2%74 / 2,112
Square-19.0010.66
top 4.5%43 / 789
5×51:07.811:15.88
top 10.2%135 / 1,167
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves39.33
top 33.6%142 / 372
6×63:03.713:21.58
top 42.9%267 / 560
7×76:22.858:55.51
top 72.9%355 / 463

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 Cheltenham 2022: 18.11Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 21.69Wiltshire Winter 2023: 14.09Wiltshire Spring 2023: 10.74Reading Spring 2023: 10.25Weston-super-Mare Spring 2023: 10.21Exeter Summer 2023: 9.07Wiltshire Summer 2023: 10.17Bristol Summer 2023: 9.98August Bank Holiday Cheltenham 2023: 8.78Wiltshire Autumn 2023: 8.42Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 8.85Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2023: 9.75Wiltshire December 2023: 9.23Bristol Winter 2024: 6.12Wiltshire February 2024: 7.35Hampshire Winter 2024: 8.50Wiltshire March 2024: 6.69Weston-super-Mare Spring 2024: 6.71Bristol Summer 2024: 7.72Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 8.45Birmingham Summer 2024: 8.48Kewbz UK Open 2024: 7.93Wiltshire September 2024: 7.14Hampshire Autumn 2024: 7.24Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 7.78Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2024: 7.05Wiltshire November 2024: 6.96Weston-super-Mare Winter 2025: 6.69Hampshire Winter 2025: 8.40Wiltshire Spring 2025: 7.15Birmingham Spring 2025: 6.78Weston-super-Mare Spring 2025: 7.10Coventry Spring 2025: 7.53Bristol June 2025: 6.65Wiltshire Summer 2025: 6.87Rubik's Irish Championship 2025: 6.77Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 6.49Weston-super-Mare Winter 2026: 6.77Wiltshire Spring 2026: 6.08Liverpool Spring 2026: 7.49Weston-super-Mare Spring 2026: 7.29Bristol June 2026: 5.55Wiltshire Summer 2026: 5.86Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 7.67Bristol August 2026: 5.90Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 5.86Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2026: 6.24Poole Autumn 2026: 6.195.5521.6927 Aug 20223 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-5 3×3 single — 355 people have one; it is 0.55 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.48 away.

Targets move as he improves.