In the past year (2025), James Hughes competed in 8 competitions and 79 rounds across 10 events, from Jan 4th to Sep 28th.
Records
He broke 1 record, which was a NR.
Podiums
He has been on the podium 2 times across 1 event, and both were silvers.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Square-1 | | 2 | |
Solves/Attempts
He attempted 379 solves and completed 358.
| Event | Solves | Attempts |
| 3x3x3 Cube | 61 | 65 |
| Square-1 | 61 | 65 |
| 2x2x2 Cube | 43 | 45 |
| Pyraminx | 35 | 35 |
| Megaminx | 34 | 35 |
| 4x4x4 Cube | 32 | 32 |
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | 29 | 30 |
| Clock | 26 | 34 |
| Skewb | 24 | 25 |
| 5x5x5 Cube | 13 | 13 |
Personal Bests
He broke his personal best 43 times across 10 events, including 23 singles and 20 averages.
| Event | Times | Single | Average |
| 4x4x4 Cube | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| 3x3x3 Cube | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| Clock | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| Square-1 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| Megaminx | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 5x5x5 Cube | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Pyraminx | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2x2x2 Cube | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Skewb | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Improvements of Single
| Event | ≤2024 | 2025 | Improvement |
| 4x4x4 Cube | 58.96 | 38.53 | 20.43 (53.02%) |
| Megaminx | 1:44.25 | 1:12.94 | 31.31 (42.93%) |
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | 24.51 | 18.52 | 5.99 (32.34%) |
| 5x5x5 Cube | 2:23.33 | 1:55.13 | 28.20 (24.49%) |
| Clock | 10.72 | 8.63 | 2.09 (24.22%) |
| Square-1 | 8.45 | 6.95 | 1.50 (21.58%) |
| 3x3x3 Cube | 10.65 | 8.84 | 1.81 (20.48%) |
| Skewb | 4.14 | 3.71 | 0.43 (11.59%) |
Improvements of Average
| Event | ≤2024 | 2025 | Improvement |
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | 31.60 | 20.86 | 10.74 (51.49%) |
| Square-1 | 12.29 | 8.49 | 3.80 (44.76%) |
| 4x4x4 Cube | 1:09.60 | 50.74 | 18.86 (37.17%) |
| Megaminx | 1:51.72 | 1:23.93 | 27.79 (33.11%) |
| 5x5x5 Cube | 2:31.38 | 2:01.21 | 30.17 (24.89%) |
| 3x3x3 Cube | 12.63 | 10.82 | 1.81 (16.73%) |
| Clock | 11.82 | 10.40 | 1.42 (13.65%) |
| 2x2x2 Cube | 4.06 | 3.60 | 0.46 (12.78%) |
| Pyraminx | 5.82 | 5.19 | 0.63 (12.14%) |
Cubers
He met 2177 cubers from 75 countries/regions, 156 of whom competed with him more than once. Ben Timmons was the only one who accompanied the whole 8 competitions.
| Shared Competitions | Competitors |
| 1 | 2021 |
| 2 | 71 |
| 3 | 35 |
| 4 | 27 |
| 5 | 9 |
| 6 | 9 |
| 7 | 4 |
| 8 | 1 |
| All | 2177 |
Regions
He competed in 2 countries/regions.
| Region | Times |
| Ireland | 7 |
| USA | 1 |
