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Zak Messenger

2×2 · top 0.64% of 186,767 all-time · competing since April 2015 · 2015MESS01

Zak Messenger has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.04, set at Kewbz UK Championship 2026, puts him in the top 0.64% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 53rd in the United Kingdom. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since April 2015, he has put 822 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 19% around a typical one; 99% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 2×2 best has come down from 4.02 in April 2015 to 1.04, a 74% improvement. Zak has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.64% of 186,767 all-time
1.04
signature single · Kewbz UK Championship 2026
822
official solves on the record
19%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 99% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
2×21.041.60
top 0.64%53 / 4,895
Skewb2.294.09
top 2.2%52 / 2,421
Pyraminx2.664.33
top 2.6%97 / 3,656
3×310.2712.43
top 8.3%602 / 6,689
4×456.721:03.82
top 32.8%733 / 2,071
3×3 one-handed34.1948.56
top 55.8%977 / 1,851
Clock35.1645.34
top 89.9%1,134 / 1,232

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

Welcome Back to Guildford 2015: 4.02Welwyn Garden City 2015: 3.85August Bank Holiday Competition 2015: 4.01UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 2.91North London Open 2016: 3.11Guildford Open 2016: 2.61Peterborough Open 2017: 2.13London Open 2017: 2.28UK Championship 2017: 2.47Guildford Open 2018: 1.78UK Championship 2018: 1.83High Wycombe Open 2019: 1.80Stevenage April 2025: 1.10Stevenage June 2025: 1.78Stevenage July 2025: 1.65Stevenage September 2025: 1.57Corby Autumn 2025: 1.44Stevenage October 2025: 1.11Stevenage 10th Anniversary 2025: 1.47Stevenage January 2026: 1.62Stevenage March 2026: 1.52Stevenage May 2026: 1.26Stevenage July 2026: 2.15Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 1.041.044.0211 Apr 201528 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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.

  • Fabio Schwandt — met in 104 rounds, finished ahead 13 times
  • Robert Yau — met in 93 rounds, finished ahead 19 times
  • Eli Jay — met in 83 rounds, finished ahead 14 times

Next targets

  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.04 away.
  • A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.29 away.

Targets move as he improves.