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Rufus Ponsford

Clock · top 0.65% of 32,817 all-time · competing since September 2022 · 2022PONS04

Rufus Ponsford has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 2.92, set at Kewbz UK Championship 2026, puts him in the top 0.65% of the 32,817 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 17th in the United Kingdom. Until May 2021, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since September 2022, he has put 1,173 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 58% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.07 in September 2022 to 8.53, a 66% improvement. Rufus has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 0.65% of 32,817 all-time
2.92
signature single · Kewbz UK Championship 2026
1,173
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
Clock2.924.35
top 0.65%17 / 1,255
Pyraminx2.083.42
top 1.3%56 / 3,704
2×21.392.49
top 1.7%136 / 4,946
3×38.539.34
top 3.8%310 / 6,785
Skewb2.855.00
top 4.3%97 / 2,439
4×435.0639.61
top 6.8%171 / 2,112
Megaminx54.411:01.87
top 7.2%96 / 998
3×3 one-handed15.2920.11
top 8.8%178 / 1,861
Square-113.0017.24
top 12.0%123 / 789
5×51:12.481:20.15
top 13.5%185 / 1,167
6×62:41.132:46.30
top 31.4%190 / 560
7×74:25.354:52.10
top 39.7%186 / 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

Stevenage Autumn A 2022: 25.07Wiltshire Spring 2023: 15.09Reading Spring 2023: 16.08Wiltshire Summer 2023: 11.58Stevenage September 2023: 13.83Stevenage February 2024: 11.78Hampshire Winter 2024: 13.22Wiltshire March 2024: 12.99Chichester Summer 2024: 10.70Battersea Autumn 2024: 9.37Wiltshire November 2024: 8.78Hampshire Winter 2025: 9.73Weston-super-Mare Spring 2025: 8.70Stevenage July 2025: 8.73Bristol August 2025: 9.79Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2025: 10.31Hampshire Autumn 2025: 8.78Weston-super-Mare Winter 2026: 10.13Devon Winter 2026: 9.72Stevenage May 2026: 8.88Bristol June 2026: 9.07Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 8.77Poole Autumn 2026: 8.538.5325.0724 Sep 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.

  • Billie Hammill — met in 147 rounds, finished ahead 26 times
  • Dorian Chan — met in 141 rounds, finished ahead 62 times
  • Blue James — met in 138 rounds, finished ahead 49 times

Next targets

  • A sub-2 Clock single — 18 people have one; it is 0.92 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,497 people have one; it is 0.08 away.

Targets move as he improves.