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Tadhg Keating
Pyraminx · top 2.7% of 129,321 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022KEAT02
Tadhg Keating has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.71, set at Dublin Summer Solving 2025, puts him in the top 2.7% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 37th in Ireland. Until October 2010, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 45 competitions since October 2022, he has put 2,528 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 61% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.83 in October 2022 to 8.53, a 72% improvement. Tadhg has entered 45 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Ireland | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 2.71 | 5.16 | top 2.7% | 37 / 911 | |
| 3×3 | 8.53 | 11.47 | top 3.8% | 62 / 1,427 | |
| 2×2 | 2.04 | 4.06 | top 5.0% | 84 / 1,163 | |
| Megaminx | 52.92 | 59.32 | top 6.4% | 29 / 283 | |
| 4×4 | 36.96 | 41.34 | top 8.6% | 53 / 579 | |
| Skewb | 3.95 | 7.29 | top 10.6% | 76 / 624 | |
| Clock | 7.37 | 9.44 | top 12.5% | 52 / 331 | |
| 5×5 | 1:17.31 | 1:24.59 | top 17.0% | 51 / 296 | |
| Square-1 | 16.12 | 26.87 | top 18.9% | 41 / 194 | |
| 6×6 | 2:32.49 | 2:49.72 | top 26.8% | 43 / 142 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 23.53 | 26.48 | top 30.2% | 112 / 448 | |
| 7×7 | 4:26.95 | 4:40.18 | top 40.1% | 45 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 26 Apr 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.93 at Don't Go Slow in Wicklow 2025.
- 22 Feb 2025Five personal bests in one day at Cork Spring 2025.
- 15 Feb 2025Three personal bests in one day at Marble City Cubing IE 2025.
- 21 Sep 2024Four personal bests in one day at Mayo Cubing 2024.
- 4 Aug 2024Four personal bests in one day at Cubing with the Kilkenny Cats Sunday 2024.
- 27 Apr 2024Three personal bests in one day at 50 and Counting Ireland 2024.
Competitions
- Éire 100 2026 · 22 Aug 2026
- Rubik's Irish Championship 2026 · 24 Jul 2026
- Cork Spring 2026 · 21 Feb 2026
- Lets Go Carlow 2026 · 7 Feb 2026
- Solving by the Barrow 2025 · 29 Nov 2025
- Re-Laois the Cubers 2025 · 25 Oct 2025
- Rebel County Colours 2025 · 27 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Mayo Cubing 2025 · 13 Sep 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Rubik's Irish Championship 2025 · 15 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing with the Kilkenny Cats 2025 · 12 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Dublin Summer Solving 2025 · 21 Jun 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- PBs in Phibblestown 2025 · 15 Jun 2025
- Don't Go Slow in Wicklow 2025 · 26 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Let's Go Carlow 2025 · 29 Mar 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Gort-a Go Fast 2025 · 8 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Cork Spring 2025 · 22 Feb 2025 — 5 personal bests set
- Marble City Cubing IE 2025 · 15 Feb 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Don't DNF Dublin 2025 · 4 Jan 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Don't Fail Kinsale 2024 · 30 Nov 2024
- Tír Chonaill Cubing 2024 · 16 Nov 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Meath for Speed 2024 · 12 Oct 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Mayo Cubing 2024 · 21 Sep 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Cubing with the Kilkenny Cats Sunday 2024 · 4 Aug 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Midlands Mix-up 2024 · 20 Jul 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Rubik's Irish Championship 2024 · 5 Jul 2024
- Please Be Qualified Ireland 2024 · 18 May 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- 50 and Counting Ireland 2024 · 27 Apr 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- UCD Cube Days 2024 · 13 Apr 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Turnin' Offaly Fast 2024 · 16 Mar 2024 — 7 personal bests set
- Cork Spring 2024 · 24 Feb 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Corduff Cubing Saturday 2024 · 17 Feb 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Gort-a Go Fast 2024 · 27 Jan 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- Rebel County Cubing 2024 · 13 Jan 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Don't Fail Kinsale 2023 · 2 Dec 2023 — 7 personal bests set
- Tuam Winter 2023 · 4 Nov 2023 — 6 personal bests set
- Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2023 · 9 Sep 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Dublin Summer Solving Sunday 2023 · 20 Aug 2023 — 5 personal bests set
- Irish Championship 2023 · 7 Jul 2023 — 6 personal bests set
- It's a Long Way to Tipperary 2023 · 13 May 2023 — 5 personal bests set
- Don't Lockup Loch Garman 2023 · 15 Apr 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Turnin' in Termonfeckin Saturday 2023 · 11 Mar 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Cork Spring 2023 · 25 Feb 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Tuam Open Sunday 2022 · 27 Nov 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Irish Championship 2022 · 4 Nov 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2022 · 8 Oct 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 494 rounds, finished ahead 43 times
- Lucas Patrick Dowling — met in 435 rounds, finished ahead 108 times
- William Carey — met in 410 rounds, finished ahead 59 times
Next targets
- A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.71 away.
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.53 away.
Targets move as he improves.