People · Ireland
Xavier Skorulski
Pyraminx · top 1.7% of 129,321 all-time · competing since November 2019 · 2019SKOR02
Xavier Skorulski has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.30, set at Rubik's Irish Championship 2024, puts him in the top 1.7% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 28th in Ireland. Until July 2011, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 31 competitions since November 2019, he has put 1,408 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 13 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.24 in November 2019 to 10.86, a 60% improvement. Xavier has entered 31 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Ireland | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 2.30 | 4.93 | top 1.7% | 28 / 911 | |
| Clock | 4.43 | 5.64 | top 3.2% | 17 / 331 | |
| Skewb | 2.75 | 5.07 | top 3.8% | 27 / 624 | |
| 2×2 | 2.53 | 4.26 | top 9.2% | 132 / 1,163 | |
| 3×3 | 10.86 | 12.61 | top 10.1% | 154 / 1,427 | |
| Megaminx | 1:03.38 | 1:11.32 | top 11.7% | 42 / 283 | |
| 4×4 | 39.97 | 50.25 | top 12.1% | 74 / 579 | |
| 5×5 | 1:31.29 | 1:42.91 | top 28.3% | 84 / 296 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 28.56 | 39.46 | top 43.3% | 170 / 448 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 21 Jun 2025Three personal bests in one day at Dublin Summer Solving 2025.
- 25 Jan 2025Three personal bests in one day at Dublin Winter Solving 2025.
- 18 May 2024Four personal bests in one day at Please Be Qualified Ireland 2024.
- 13 Apr 2024Five personal bests in one day at UCD Cube Days 2024.
- 14 Oct 2023Six personal bests in one day at Meath Autumn 2023.
- 9 Sep 2023Three personal bests in one day at Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2023.
Competitions
- Rubik's Irish Championship 2026 · 24 Jul 2026
- Don't Go Slow in Wicklow 2026 · 11 Apr 2026
- Dublin Pick 'N' Mix 2026 · 17 Jan 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Termonfeckin Fast 2025 · 11 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Dublin Autumn Solving 2025 · 30 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's Irish Championship 2025 · 15 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing with the Kilkenny Cats 2025 · 12 Jul 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Dublin Summer Solving 2025 · 21 Jun 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- UCD Cube Days 2025 · 12 Apr 2025
- Let's Go Carlow 2025 · 29 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Marble City Cubing IE 2025 · 15 Feb 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Dublin Winter Solving 2025 · 25 Jan 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Honey Cube Barcin 2024 · 26 Oct 2024
- Meath for Speed 2024 · 12 Oct 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing with the Kilkenny Cats Saturday 2024 · 3 Aug 2024
- Rubik's Irish Championship 2024 · 5 Jul 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Turnin' in Termonfeckin Sunday 2024 · 2 Jun 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Please Be Qualified Ireland 2024 · 18 May 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- 50 and Counting Ireland 2024 · 27 Apr 2024
- UCD Cube Days 2024 · 13 Apr 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- Cork Spring 2024 · 24 Feb 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Corduff Cubing Saturday 2024 · 17 Feb 2024
- Rebel County Cubing 2024 · 13 Jan 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Don't DNF Dublin 2024 · 6 Jan 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Meath Autumn 2023 · 14 Oct 2023 — 6 personal bests set
- Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2023 · 9 Sep 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Dublin Summer Solving Sunday 2023 · 20 Aug 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Irish Championship 2023 · 7 Jul 2023 — 5 personal bests set
- Belfast Winter 2023 · 14 Jan 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Seaside Solving Saturday 2022 · 9 Apr 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Every Event Éire 2019 · 2 Nov 2019
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.
- Ben Timmons — met in 284 rounds, finished ahead 37 times
- Namuun Natsagdorj — met in 233 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
- Lucas Patrick Dowling — met in 228 rounds, finished ahead 48 times
Next targets
- A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.30 away.
- A sub-4 Clock single — 741 people have one; it is 0.43 away.
Targets move as he improves.