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Timothy Lawrance

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 3.0% of 12,418 all-time · competing since July 2017 · 2017LAWR04

Timothy Lawrance has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 23 moves, set at OSU Blind Weekend 2019, puts him in the top 3.0% of the 12,418 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in South Africa. Across 67 competitions since July 2017, he has put 2,583 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.65 in July 2017 to 14.88, a 34% improvement. Timothy has entered 67 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 3.0% of 12,418 all-time
23 moves
signature single · OSU Blind Weekend 2019
2,583
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
3×3 Fewest Moves23 moves27.33
top 3.0%1 / 54
Pyraminx4.025.29
top 7.8%57 / 958
Skewb4.207.77
top 12.4%50 / 444
3×3 Multi-Blind14 of 16 cubes · 54:39—
top 12.6%4 / 28
3×3 blindfolded1:09.241:23.78
top 16.0%10 / 54
2×23.214.84
top 16.8%171 / 1,525
Square-116.3422.13
top 19.5%23 / 121
4×4 blindfolded4:56.205:55.18
top 21.6%3 / 16
Clock9.8311.52
top 24.1%30 / 153
3×314.8817.98
top 24.1%306 / 2,187
5×5 blindfolded12:45.00—
top 31.7%2 / 8
4×41:00.001:08.34
top 36.6%124 / 495
5×51:51.712:07.91
top 43.9%68 / 225
Megaminx2:00.352:21.20
top 46.0%85 / 268
6×63:35.393:51.17
top 57.0%40 / 87
7×75:41.906:20.39
top 63.2%31 / 73
3×3 one-handed42.4748.53
top 68.7%218 / 473

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

Eden Village Winter 2017: 22.65Speedcubes Cape Town 2017: 19.75Gauteng Autumn 2018: 18.35Arnold Classic Africa 2018: 18.90Gauteng Summer 2019: 17.71Burke Mountain Cubing 2019: 17.49Empire State Spring 2019: 19.58Arnold Classic Africa 2019: 17.43Warm Up Canberra 2019: 17.55WCA World Championship 2019: 19.92Cape Town Spring 2019: 16.96Copper Country Cubing Fall 2019: 16.12Boise 2019: 14.88Doncaster Open 2020: 15.79Cape Town Summer 2020: 17.69Durban Summer Warm-up 2021: 16.55North Star Cubing Challenge 2022: 14.99Speedcubes Cape Town 2022: 17.56Arnold Classic Africa 2022: 17.39Don't DNF Dublin 2022: 17.41Stevenage Summer 2022: 16.74CubeCo Durban Winter Warmup 2022: 18.55Rubik's WCA African Championship 2022: 15.01Just Cube Joburg 2022: 16.78CubeCo Durban Summer 2022: 16.40CubingZA Cape Cubes Summer 2023: 15.36Sleepless in Seattle 2023: 17.87Dolphin Coast Autumn 2023: 17.57CubingZA National Championship 2023: 17.44Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 17.53CubingZA Cape Cubes Spring 2023: 15.52Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2023: 16.08Qualifying in Kirstenhof 2024: 16.46Rubik's WCA African Championship 2024: 16.91Beginner and Blind Cape Town 2024: 15.45Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2024: 17.43CubeCo Durban Summer 2024: 17.39CubeCo Coastal Cubing KZN 2025: 18.48Côte d'Ivoire Cubing 2025: 17.47CubingZA Nationals 2025: 17.85Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 18.64Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2025: 18.37CubeCo Durban Spring 2025: 14.96Howick Spring 2025: 16.98Leeds Spring 2026: 18.12Liverpool Spring 2026: 18.64Cubing in the Cape Q3 2026: 17.53GAN WCA African Championship 2026: 18.5714.8822.6515 Jul 201724 Sep 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-4 Pyraminx single — 10,050 people have one; it is 0.02 away.
  • A sub-4 Skewb single — 8,121 people have one; it is 0.20 away.

Targets move as he improves.