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Zeke McQueen Laval

2×2 · top 0.66% of 189,179 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022LAVA01

Zeke McQueen Laval has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.05, set at Perth Winter 2025, puts him in the top 0.66% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 74th in Australia. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 24 competitions since May 2022, he has put 534 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 90% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.75 in May 2022 to 8.49, a 59% improvement. Zeke has entered 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.66% of 189,179 all-time
1.05
signature single · Perth Winter 2025
534
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
2×21.052.74
top 0.66%74 / 8,727
3×38.499.37
top 3.7%360 / 11,943
Skewb4.787.79
top 16.6%438 / 3,589
4×445.4253.38
top 18.9%471 / 3,108
5×52:00.292:07.87
top 49.5%682 / 1,412

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

Rockingham Rapid 2022: 20.75Speedy South Perth 2023: 10.86Perth Winter 2024: 11.21Bunbury's South West Speedsolving 2024: 13.16Move It Midland 2024: 14.03Perth Puzzle Party 2025: 11.85Freo Cube-Off 2025: 11.55Keep Up Karrinyup 2025: 9.02Perth Autumn 2025: 11.22Perth Winter 2025: 10.86Mandurah Madness 2025: 10.47Move It Midland 2025: 9.29Bunbury's South West Speedsolving 2025: 9.95Perth Summer 2026: 10.67Good Solves in Gibson Park 2026: 9.90Only Cubes in Scarborough 2026: 9.53Freo Cube-Off 2026: 9.96Perth Favourites Evening 2026: 9.88Perth Puzzle Party 2026: 9.08Perth Time Trial 2026: 8.64Perth Winter 2026: 9.18Winding Down in Willetton 2026: 8.49Murdoch University Open 2026: 9.408.4920.757 May 202219 Sep 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-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.05 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.49 away.

Targets move as he improves.