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Toby Palmer

3×3 · top 0.52% of 288,433 all-time · competing since April 2022 · 2022PALM01

Toby Palmer has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.04, set at Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2025, puts him in the top 0.52% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 52nd in the United Kingdom. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since April 2022, he has put 1,375 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 8.54 in April 2022 to 6.04, a 29% improvement. Toby has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.52% of 288,433 all-time
6.04
signature single · Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2025
1,375
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×36.047.66
top 0.52%52 / 6,785
4×424.3628.33
top 0.57%20 / 2,112
3×3 one-handed10.5313.05
top 1.4%28 / 1,861
Megaminx39.7145.26
top 1.5%29 / 998
2×21.612.57
top 2.7%199 / 4,946
5×555.441:00.53
top 3.6%53 / 1,167
6×61:41.441:45.88
top 4.5%31 / 560
Pyraminx4.026.04
top 7.8%307 / 3,704
Skewb4.165.89
top 12.1%278 / 2,439
Clock7.629.17
top 13.3%198 / 1,255
7×73:11.513:23.78
top 13.8%65 / 463
Square-129.0836.67
top 47.8%436 / 789

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

Stevenage Spring 2022: 8.54Chippenham Autumn 2022: 9.48Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 9.05Wiltshire Winter 2023: 8.90Lincolnshire Winter 2023: 8.54Weston-super-Mare Spring 2023: 7.42Wiltshire Autumn 2023: 7.15Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 7.69Wiltshire December 2023: 7.47Weston-super-Mare Spring 2024: 7.78Lincolnshire Summer 2024: 6.95Wiltshire September 2024: 7.03Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 7.90Wiltshire November 2024: 6.83Bristol Winter Open 2024: 8.13Wiltshire Summer 2025: 7.45Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 7.12Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2025: 6.04Hampshire Summer 2026: 7.09Wiltshire Summer 2026: 6.81Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 7.016.049.4830 Apr 202228 Aug 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-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.04 away.
  • A sub-20 4×4 single — 46 people have one; it is 4.36 away.

Targets move as he improves.