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Xavier Hurst

3×3 · top 8.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2021 · 2021HURS02

Xavier Hurst has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.35, set at Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2024, puts him in the top 8.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 763rd in Australia. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since August 2021, he has put 707 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.31 in October 2021 to 10.35, a 57% improvement. Xavier has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.5% of 284,439 all-time
10.35
signature single · Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2024
707
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×310.3513.01
top 8.5%763 / 11,709
2×22.744.83
top 11.4%850 / 8,567
Pyraminx5.529.16
top 16.6%806 / 5,993
3×3 one-handed22.3132.85
top 26.9%601 / 2,659
Skewb6.429.67
top 29.1%804 / 3,534
4×453.8058.43
top 29.3%768 / 3,051
5×51:34.011:38.08
top 30.7%417 / 1,356
6×62:40.083:07.08
top 30.8%188 / 641
Megaminx1:45.452:02.92
top 37.8%471 / 1,277
Clock14.3017.58
top 45.1%468 / 1,095
7×74:46.805:13.20
top 46.7%226 / 523
Square-11:02.72—
early days — 2 solves797 / 899
3×3 Fewest Moves53 moves—
early days — 1 solve389 / 468

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

Fremantle Fast Fingers 2021: 24.31Puzzling Pinjarra 2021: 26.80Perth 10 Year Anniversary 2021: 19.61Albany Summer Solving 2022: 19.75WA Open 2022: 18.15Perth Puzzle Marathon 2022: 20.23Australian Nationals 2022: 16.30Butler Blitz 2022: 14.49Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2022: 16.17Hurry Up Karrinyup 2023: 14.72Perth Autumn 2023: 12.23Mandurah Mayhem 2023: 11.35Quintilian Cube-Off 2023: 13.39Butler Blitz 2023: 11.86Cubing by Quinns Beach 2023: 13.28Murdoch University Open 2024: 11.74South Perth Cube Day 2024: 12.67Going Fast in Guildford 2024: 12.79Perth Puzzle Pyjama Party 2024: 11.92Only 3x3s in Perth 2024: 12.01Australian Nationals 2024: 11.30Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2024: 10.3510.3526.8010 Oct 202119 Dec 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.35 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.74 away.

Targets move as he improves.