The numbers
The Skewb, in numbers
Everything countable about the Skewb: the mathematics of the puzzle with its sources, and the live state of the sport, rebuilt nightly.
- A Skewb has exactly 3,149,280 positions. Its cuts pass through the cube's corners rather than its faces, so every turn moves all six faces at once. Jaap's Puzzle Page
- The world record single is 0.73 by Vojtěch Grohmann, standing 231 days.
- The world record average is 1.37 by Ignacy Samselski, standing 497 days.
- 2,236,793 completed solves are on the official record in Skewb, from 9,137 competitions in 149 countries.
- 74,164 people hold an official ranking. The median personal best among all of them is 9.22.
- 35 people have ever gone under 1.00 seconds.
- The world record has moved 14 times since records began in 2014.
- 149 countries hold a national record, and the spread is wide: the fastest is 0.73, the most beatable 30.86.
- Results begin in 2014; every figure on this page recomputes nightly from the official export.
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