People · Ireland
Shay Murphy
3×3 · top 16.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2022 · 2022MURP18
Shay Murphy has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.74, set at Let's Go Carlow 2025, puts him in the top 16.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 229th in Ireland. Across 7 competitions since November 2022, he has put 123 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 86% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.86 in November 2022 to 12.74, a 59% improvement. Shay has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Ireland | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 12.74 | 16.15 | top 16.5% | 229 / 1,427 | |
| 2×2 | 3.28 | 5.75 | top 17.5% | 243 / 1,163 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.69 | 13.28 | top 25.4% | 299 / 911 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 39.17 | 50.10 | top 64.1% | 248 / 448 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 13 Jan 2024First sub-15 3×3: 14.35 at Rebel County Cubing 2024.
- 7 Jul 2023First sub-20 3×3: 17.71 at Irish Championship 2023.
- 25 Feb 2023First sub-30 3×3: 21.73 at Cork Spring 2023.
- 25 Feb 2023Three personal bests in one day at Cork Spring 2023.
- 26 Nov 2022First competition: Tuam Open Saturday 2022. A 30.86 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Re-Laois the Cubers 2025 · 25 Oct 2025
- Let's Go Carlow 2025 · 29 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing with the Kilkenny Cats Saturday 2024 · 3 Aug 2024
- Rebel County Cubing 2024 · 13 Jan 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Irish Championship 2023 · 7 Jul 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Cork Spring 2023 · 25 Feb 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Tuam Open Saturday 2022 · 26 Nov 2022
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.
- Ben Timmons — met in 25 rounds, finished ahead once
- Hugo McGrath — met in 23 rounds, finished ahead twice
- William Carey — met in 22 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.74 away.
- A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.28 away.
Targets move as he improves.