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Theo Holmes

2×2 · top 0.16% of 189,179 all-time · competing since June 2025 · 2025HOLM06

Theo Holmes has been competing for a year. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.74, set at York Summer 2026, puts him in the top 0.16% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 15th in the United Kingdom. Until November 2011, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since June 2025, he has put 893 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 83% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 34.55 in June 2025 to 8.16, a 76% improvement. Theo has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.16% of 189,179 all-time
0.74
signature single · York Summer 2026
893
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
2×20.741.99
top 0.16%15 / 4,946
Pyraminx2.294.94
top 1.7%67 / 3,704
5×551.451:04.69
top 2.2%37 / 1,167
3×3 one-handed11.5317.05
top 2.4%50 / 1,861
3×38.169.62
top 3.1%258 / 6,785
Clock5.226.97
top 5.0%76 / 1,255
4×436.2341.34
top 8.0%193 / 2,112
Skewb4.005.41
top 11.0%250 / 2,439
6×62:00.202:14.68
top 11.1%75 / 560
Megaminx1:03.941:08.90
top 12.1%159 / 998
Square-115.6223.71
top 17.9%178 / 789
7×73:40.273:55.72
top 23.6%113 / 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

Manchester June 2025: 34.55Newcastle upon Tyne Summer 2025: 24.80Manchester Favourites I 2025: 13.78Manchester October 2025: 14.42Stevenage 10th Anniversary 2025: 13.74Leicestershire Autumn 2025: 11.06Weston-super-Mare Winter 2026: 12.96Bolton Spring 2026: 9.32Leeds Spring 2026: 9.87Sheffield Spring 2026: 9.83Wakefield Summer 2026: 9.95Manchester Cubing League - Final 2026: 8.19Newcastle upon Tyne Summer 2026: 9.03Bristol August 2026: 8.66York Summer 2026: 8.16Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 8.76Manchester September 2026: 8.18Grantham Autumn 2026: 8.538.1634.5515 Jun 202517 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 0.29 away.
  • A sub-50 5×5 single — 733 people have one; it is 1.45 away.

Targets move as he improves.