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Xavier Courteau-Laing

3×3 · top 0.72% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2021 · 2021COUR01

Xavier Courteau-Laing has been competing for 6 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.35, set at Auckland Autumn 2025, puts him in the top 0.72% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 29th in New Zealand. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 41 competitions since January 2021, he has put 2,246 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.50 in January 2021 to 6.35, a 70% improvement. Xavier has entered 41 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.72% of 284,439 all-time
6.35
signature single · Auckland Autumn 2025
2,246
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNew Zealand
3×36.358.36
top 0.72%29 / 2,095
Pyraminx1.744.60
top 0.73%27 / 1,141
2×21.132.45
top 0.85%42 / 1,615
3×3 blindfolded19.7626.53
top 1.3%3 / 86
3×3 Fewest Moves22 moves25.67
top 2.2%3 / 111
4×429.7633.50
top 2.7%34 / 722
3×3 Multi-Blind24 of 28 cubes · 57:43—
top 4.9%5 / 49
3×3 one-handed13.6916.31
top 5.6%50 / 600
Clock5.596.49
top 6.0%33 / 303
5×51:05.121:10.65
top 8.5%36 / 355
Square-112.5618.36
top 11.0%37 / 251
Skewb4.457.04
top 14.1%109 / 666
Megaminx1:11.321:24.33
top 16.5%67 / 283
7×73:36.753:44.50
top 22.2%35 / 126
6×62:24.292:36.53
top 22.7%46 / 149
4×4 blindfolded20:35.00—
early days — 1 solve22 / 23

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

A New Year in Auckland 2021: 21.50NZ North Island Championship 2021: 9.32Popping Off Pukekohe A 2022: 9.95Twisty Taranaki 2022: 9.56Three Rounds Whangarei 2022: 8.40New Zealand Nationals 2022: 7.83A New Year in Hamilton 2023: 9.46Auckland Autumn 2023: 8.18Auckland Mid-Year Madness 2023: 7.50Tauranga Open 2023: 9.14NZ North Island Championship 2023: 7.87New Zealand Nationals 2023: 7.32A New Year in Auckland 2024: 8.19Beachside Auckland 2024: 8.10Auckland Matariki Open 2024: 7.75Clauckland 2024: 7.94NZ North Island Championship 2024: 9.05South Auckland Side Events 2024: 9.34New Zealand Cubing Decathlon 2024: 7.95Max Speed Milford 2024: 9.11New Zealand Nationals 2024: 9.15A New Year in Auckland 2025: 8.28Sqauckland 2025: 7.62Auckland Autumn 2025: 6.35Coping in Auckland 2025: 7.92Beachside Auckland 2025: 7.30Drury Summer 2025: 6.80New Zealand Nationals 2025: 7.67A New Year in Auckland 2026: 6.81NZ North Island Championship 2026: 8.43Cubing East Auckland Newcomer Open 2026: 7.58Welcome Back Hamilton 2026: 7.38GAN New Zealand Nationals 2026: 7.276.3521.508 Jan 202110 Jul 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 — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.35 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.74 away.

Targets move as he improves.