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Sam O'Reilly

Pyraminx · top 3.3% of 130,891 all-time · competing since April 2024 · 2024OREI01

Sam O'Reilly has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.91, set at Turnin' in Termonfeckin Saturday 2024, puts him in the top 3.3% of the 130,891 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 50th in Ireland. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since April 2024, he has put 730 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 56% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.86 in April 2024 to 13.14, a 40% improvement. Sam has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 3.3% of 130,891 all-time
2.91
signature single · Turnin' in Termonfeckin Saturday 2024
730
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 standingIreland
Pyraminx2.917.79
top 3.3%50 / 924
Skewb4.547.90
top 14.8%109 / 632
Clock8.4912.65
top 17.4%68 / 342
3×313.1414.95
top 18.0%251 / 1,465
2×23.584.87
top 21.2%297 / 1,190
3×3 one-handed21.7032.11
top 25.3%89 / 454
Megaminx1:32.751:53.05
top 30.0%96 / 288
4×455.131:02.59
top 31.0%150 / 586
5×51:40.002:09.33
top 35.4%107 / 300
Square-131.3144.41
top 51.9%109 / 198
6×63:42.843:55.73
top 59.9%90 / 144
7×76:16.83—
top 71.6%81 / 108

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

UCD Cube Days 2024: 21.8650 and Counting Ireland 2024: 18.00Turnin' in Termonfeckin Saturday 2024: 18.93Rubik's Irish Championship 2024: 18.36Midlands Mix-up 2024: 18.23Dublin Summer Solving 2024: 15.91Meath for Speed 2024: 17.30Marble City Cubing IE 2025: 17.20UCD Cube Days 2025: 13.89Don't Go Slow in Wicklow 2025: 14.00PBs in Phibblestown 2025: 14.62Dublin Summer Solving 2025: 13.65Re-Laois the Cubers 2025: 15.96TUD Unscramble Day 2026: 14.85Don't Go Slow in Wicklow 2026: 14.00Rubik's Irish Championship 2026: 13.14Dublin Autumn Solving 2026: 13.46Meath For Mega Speed 2026: 13.1813.1421.8613 Apr 202410 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-2 Pyraminx single — 1,497 people have one; it is 0.91 away.
  • A sub-4 Skewb single — 8,121 people have one; it is 0.54 away.

Targets move as he improves.