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Ace Schembri

Skewb · top 0.55% of 73,281 all-time · competing since November 2021 · 2021SCHE04

Ace Schembri has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 1.58, set at Utah Championship 2023, puts him in the top 0.55% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 89th in the United States. Until October 2015, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since November 2021, he has put 415 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.48 in May 2022 to 11.22, a 39% improvement. Ace has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 0.55% of 73,281 all-time
1.58
signature single · Utah Championship 2023
415
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Skewb1.583.33
top 0.55%89 / 18,907
2×22.202.87
top 6.2%2,477 / 40,951
Pyraminx4.125.72
top 8.3%2,116 / 28,708
3×311.2212.66
top 11.2%6,049 / 59,724
4×449.5957.55
top 24.2%3,691 / 19,072

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

Utah's California Gull Extravaganza 2022: 18.48Back to School Utah 2022: 14.46Gem State Side Events 2022: 13.74Posthaste Potato Solving 2022: 12.35Utah Snowball Bash 2022: 13.30Idaho Freeze Dried 2023: 14.09Utah Ice Cubing 2023: 12.15Utah Megacomp 2023: 13.26Salt Lake Utah Summer 2023: 13.25Utah Summer Side Events B 2023: 12.18Back to School Utah 2023: 11.30Utah Championship 2023: 11.59Utah Ice Cubing 2024: 11.22Utah Championship 2025: 13.9311.2218.4820 May 202229 Nov 2025

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 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.58 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.20 away.

Targets move as he improves.