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Thomas Stokes

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 1.5% of 12,294 all-time · competing since August 2017 · 2017STOK03

Thomas Stokes has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 21 moves, set at Rubik's UK Championship FMC 2025, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 12th in the United Kingdom. Across 24 competitions since August 2017, he has put 630 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 94% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.54 in August 2017 to 12.22, a 50% improvement. Thomas has entered 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 1.5% of 12,294 all-time
21 moves
signature single · Rubik's UK Championship FMC 2025
630
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 94% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×3 Fewest Moves21 moves24.67
top 1.5%12 / 372
2×21.694.12
top 3.0%225 / 4,895
3×312.2213.94
top 14.7%1,012 / 6,689
7×73:26.673:33.46
top 18.6%82 / 459
3×3 one-handed19.8625.76
top 20.1%384 / 1,851
5×51:25.431:35.16
top 23.7%316 / 1,151
6×62:28.692:40.45
top 25.0%147 / 548
4×451.3458.07
top 26.3%592 / 2,071
Megaminx1:50.241:54.21
top 40.5%454 / 966
3×3 blindfolded2:26.39—
early days — 3 solves172 / 311
Pyraminx10.4919.18
top 56.8%2,269 / 3,656
4×4 blindfolded10:45.00—
early days — 1 solve67 / 84
Skewb26.5441.89
top 95.7%2,351 / 2,421

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

August Bank Holiday Competition 2017: 24.54Guildford Open 2017: 22.25Guildford Open 2018: 17.74High Wycombe Open 2018: 17.79WCA European Championship 2018: 15.03Fontwell Open 2019: 14.69London Open 2019: 15.16High Wycombe Open 2019: 14.22UK Championship 2019: 16.63Guildford Open 2020: 13.70Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 14.64Reading Spring 2023: 13.26Hampshire Spring 2023: 15.01Wiltshire December 2023: 12.22Wiltshire February 2024: 13.64Wiltshire March 2024: 12.42Wiltshire September 2024: 13.0412.2224.5426 Aug 201721 Sep 2024

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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.69 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.22 away.

Targets move as he improves.