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Toby Sainthouse

3×3 · top 0.88% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2016 · 2016SAIN04

Toby Sainthouse has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.53, set at Crewe Favourites 2025, puts him in the top 0.88% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 73rd in the United Kingdom. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 24 competitions since October 2016, he has put 805 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.95 in October 2016 to 6.53, a 69% improvement. Toby has entered 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.88% of 284,439 all-time
6.53
signature single · Crewe Favourites 2025
805
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×36.539.69
top 0.88%73 / 6,689
2×22.103.74
top 5.4%397 / 4,895
4×433.9241.16
top 5.8%137 / 2,071
5×51:01.441:11.67
top 6.3%87 / 1,151
Megaminx1:01.261:12.81
top 10.7%134 / 966
7×73:08.113:27.98
top 12.7%60 / 459
6×62:11.882:16.36
top 16.2%97 / 548
Skewb8.0611.47
top 41.7%984 / 2,421
3×3 one-handed28.5131.86
top 43.2%760 / 1,851

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

Guildford Open 2016: 20.95UK Championship 2016: 19.59World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 16.27Guildford Open 2017: 13.42UK Championship 2017: 13.47Guildford Open 2018: 14.58Peterborough Open 2018: 12.41Fontwell Open 2019: 10.90UK Championship 2019: 11.63Guildford Open 2020: 11.12Fontwell Open 2020: 12.21Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2022: 10.95Weston-super-Mare Spring 2023: 10.25August Bank Holiday Cheltenham 2023: 8.73Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 9.24Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2023: 9.26Stevenage January 2024: 8.67Hampshire Winter 2024: 8.72Weston-super-Mare Spring 2024: 7.61Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 7.99Crewe Favourites 2025: 6.53Chichester January 2025: 8.11Crewe Winter 2025: 9.156.5320.951 Oct 201615 Feb 2025

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 — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.53 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.10 away.

Targets move as he improves.