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Steven Kearns

3×3 · top 0.68% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2015 · 2015KEAR01

Steven Kearns has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.29, set at Leeds Open 2019, puts him in the top 0.68% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 58th in the United Kingdom. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 54 competitions since November 2015, he has put 3,467 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.75 in November 2015 to 6.29, a 54% improvement. Steven has entered 54 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.68% of 284,439 all-time
6.29
signature single · Leeds Open 2019
3,467
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×36.298.63
top 0.68%58 / 6,689
3×3 Multi-Blind32 of 33 cubes · 57:19—
top 1.3%3 / 126
4×429.1435.73
top 2.3%58 / 2,071
2×21.652.90
top 2.8%209 / 4,895
5×556.911:01.10
top 4.1%56 / 1,151
3×3 blindfolded30.6640.31
top 4.3%17 / 311
6×61:41.811:47.72
top 4.5%31 / 548
Skewb2.926.02
top 4.6%107 / 2,421
7×72:37.412:46.16
top 5.0%22 / 459
3×3 one-handed13.6418.43
top 5.5%107 / 1,851
Pyraminx3.936.96
top 7.3%285 / 3,656
Clock7.587.86
top 13.2%190 / 1,232
4×4 blindfolded5:40.81—
top 26.6%33 / 84
Square-119.5725.05
top 27.0%255 / 778
Megaminx1:40.161:56.10
top 34.7%388 / 966
5×5 blindfolded17:42.00—
early days — 1 solve32 / 50
3×3 Fewest Moves43 moves—
early days — 2 solves245 / 372

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

UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 13.75North London Open 2016: 12.32Guildford Open 2016: 10.51UK Championship 2016: 11.66Birmingham Open 2016: 9.52Peterborough Open 2017: 11.23London Open 2017: 7.83August Bank Holiday Competition 2017: 7.67Guildford Open 2017: 7.00UK Championship 2017: 7.67Weston-super-Mare Open 2017: 9.09Welsh Open 2018: 7.09Guildford Open 2018: 7.76High Wycombe Open 2018: 7.54Peterborough Open 2018: 9.29August Bank Holiday Competition 2018: 9.25Stratford-upon-Avon Open 2018: 8.23UK Championship 2018: 9.74Weston-super-Mare Open 2018: 8.96Cambridge Open 2018: 7.77Manchester Open 2019: 10.29British Summer Open 2019: 8.91Leeds Open 2019: 6.29August Bank Holiday Celebration 2019: 8.82Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2019: 8.38UK Championship 2019: 8.04Every Event Éire 2019: 7.03Weston-super-Mare Open 2019: 8.60Fontwell Open 2020: 8.56Doncaster Open 2020: 7.94Wakefield Open 2022: 7.77Wakefield Spring 2022: 9.04Glasgow Open 2022: 8.25Mallorca Open 2022: 6.52Carlisle Summer 2022: 7.66Lincoln Summer 2022: 8.23Wakefield Autumn 2022: 7.96Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2022: 6.92Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 9.30Essex Winter 2022: 7.71Belfast Winter 2023: 7.68Glasgow Winter 2023: 7.98Wakefield Spring 2023: 8.06Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 8.04Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 7.55Corby Autumn 2025: 8.46Portugal Championship 2025: 7.496.2913.757 Nov 201529 Nov 2025

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.29 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 4.14 away.

Targets move as he improves.