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Andy French
Skewb · top 0.52% of 73,281 all-time · competing since January 2019 · 2019FREN01
Andy French has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 1.56, set at Super Duper San Diego 2024, puts him in the top 0.52% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 84th in the United States. Until October 2015, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 41 competitions since January 2019, he has put 1,788 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.22 in January 2019 to 6.65, a 67% improvement. Andy has entered 41 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skewb | 1.56 | 3.37 | top 0.52% | 84 / 18,907 | |
| 3×3 | 6.65 | 8.83 | top 0.98% | 618 / 59,724 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 10.58 | 15.06 | top 1.5% | 236 / 15,683 | |
| Square-1 | 7.73 | 12.31 | top 2.6% | 195 / 6,743 | |
| 4×4 | 30.39 | 34.12 | top 3.1% | 499 / 19,072 | |
| Pyraminx | 2.93 | 4.37 | top 3.4% | 895 / 28,708 | |
| 2×2 | 1.90 | 2.50 | top 4.1% | 1,623 / 40,951 | |
| Megaminx | 51.67 | 57.13 | top 5.8% | 418 / 7,841 | |
| 5×5 | 1:02.41 | 1:04.39 | top 6.9% | 550 / 9,401 | |
| 6×6 | 1:49.76 | 1:53.99 | top 7.1% | 245 / 4,196 | |
| Clock | 5.94 | 7.18 | top 7.1% | 556 / 8,927 | |
| 7×7 | 2:58.60 | 3:12.69 | top 10.2% | 275 / 3,184 | |
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 35 moves | 39.00 | top 30.0% | 652 / 2,040 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 2:03.22 | — | top 34.4% | 713 / 2,092 | |
| 3×3 Multi-Blind | 4 of 4 cubes · 27:18 | — | early days — 1 solve | 324 / 731 | |
| 4×4 blindfolded | 17:54.00 | — | early days — 2 solves | 358 / 440 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 25 Jul 2026Three personal bests in one day at Temecula Valley Summer 2026.
- 22 Mar 2026Three personal bests in one day at Poly Cubed at Pomona 2026.
- 9 Jan 2026Three personal bests in one day at Super Duper San Diego 2026.
- 28 Sep 2024Five personal bests in one day at Super Duper San Diego 2024.
- 2 Aug 2024Three personal bests in one day at CubingUSA Western Championship 2024.
- 6 May 2023Three personal bests in one day at Gonna Need a Bigger Cube SD 2023.
Competitions
- Temecula Valley Back To School 2026 · 22 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Temecula Valley Summer 2026 · 25 Jul 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Agoura Summer 2026 · 20 Jun 2026 — 1 personal best set
- West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2026 · 23 May 2026
- Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2026 · 19 Apr 2026
- UCSD TritoNxN 2026 · 4 Apr 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Poly Cubed at Pomona 2026 · 22 Mar 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Super Duper San Diego 2026 · 9 Jan 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Poly Cubed at Pomona 2025 · 18 Oct 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2025 · 29 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025 · 24 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- UCLA Summer 2025 · 20 Jul 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Long Beach Fantastic Memory Challenge 2025 · 13 Jul 2025
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- West Coast Cubing Tour: San Diego 2025 · 21 Jun 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Westview Cubing Favorites 2025 · 1 Jun 2025
- Nub Open Mission Viejo Spring 2025 · 31 May 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Let's Cube Long Beach 2025 · 25 May 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- UCLA Spring 2025 · 20 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Agoura Side Events Day 2025 · 6 Apr 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2025 · 30 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- UCSD Big and Blind 2025 · 19 Jan 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Super Duper San Diego 2024 · 28 Sep 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Western Championship 2024 · 2 Aug 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- UCSD Summer 2023 · 5 Aug 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Poway Summer Cubing 2023 · 18 Jun 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Westview Cubing Favorites 2023 · 27 May 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Gonna Need a Bigger Cube SD 2023 · 6 May 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- UCSD Spring 2023 · 2 Apr 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Circle City Turbocharged 2023 · 11 Mar 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Oak Valley Winter A 2023 · 25 Feb 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Cozy Cubing Poway 2023 · 29 Jan 2023 — 7 personal bests set
- San Diego's Final Cube-Down 2022 · 31 Dec 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Bernardo Heights Sides Open 2022 · 25 Sep 2022 — 6 personal bests set
- Marshall Cubing September 2022 · 24 Sep 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Marshall Middle Slice 2022 · 27 Aug 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Long Beach Spring 2022 · 14 May 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Anaheim Winter B 2022 · 6 Feb 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Westview Winter B 2021 · 11 Dec 2021 — 2 personal bests set
- UCSD Winter 2020 · 18 Jan 2020 — 2 personal bests set
- Another Bruin Cube Day 2019 · 12 Jan 2019
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.
- Shane Grogan — met in 258 rounds, finished ahead 91 times
- August Barnard — met in 210 rounds, finished ahead 161 times
- Dominic Shoji — met in 186 rounds, finished ahead 92 times
Next targets
- A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.56 away.
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.65 away.
Targets move as he improves.