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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.

Skewb
best event — top 0.52% of 73,281 all-time
1.56
signature single · Super Duper San Diego 2024
1,788
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Skewb1.563.37
top 0.52%84 / 18,907
3×36.658.83
top 0.98%618 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed10.5815.06
top 1.5%236 / 15,683
Square-17.7312.31
top 2.6%195 / 6,743
4×430.3934.12
top 3.1%499 / 19,072
Pyraminx2.934.37
top 3.4%895 / 28,708
2×21.902.50
top 4.1%1,623 / 40,951
Megaminx51.6757.13
top 5.8%418 / 7,841
5×51:02.411:04.39
top 6.9%550 / 9,401
6×61:49.761:53.99
top 7.1%245 / 4,196
Clock5.947.18
top 7.1%556 / 8,927
7×72:58.603:12.69
top 10.2%275 / 3,184
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves39.00
top 30.0%652 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded2:03.22
top 34.4%713 / 2,092
3×3 Multi-Blind4 of 4 cubes · 27:18
early days — 1 solve324 / 731
4×4 blindfolded17:54.00
early days — 2 solves358 / 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

Another Bruin Cube Day 2019: 20.22UCSD Winter 2020: 10.55Westview Winter B 2021: 9.54Anaheim Winter B 2022: 9.08Long Beach Spring 2022: 8.61Marshall Middle Slice 2022: 8.46Marshall Cubing September 2022: 7.72San Diego's Final Cube-Down 2022: 9.72Cozy Cubing Poway 2023: 8.44Oak Valley Winter A 2023: 8.58Circle City Turbocharged 2023: 7.70UCSD Spring 2023: 8.98Gonna Need a Bigger Cube SD 2023: 8.74Westview Cubing Favorites 2023: 9.23Poway Summer Cubing 2023: 7.87UCSD Summer 2023: 9.57CubingUSA Western Championship 2024: 9.11Super Duper San Diego 2024: 8.74Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2025: 8.18Agoura Side Events Day 2025: 7.06UCLA Spring 2025: 7.93Let's Cube Long Beach 2025: 7.28Nub Open Mission Viejo Spring 2025: 8.58Westview Cubing Favorites 2025: 9.01West Coast Cubing Tour: San Diego 2025: 8.58Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.99UCLA Summer 2025: 8.09UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025: 7.73West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2025: 8.54Poly Cubed at Pomona 2025: 6.65Super Duper San Diego 2026: 8.33Poly Cubed at Pomona 2026: 7.37UCSD TritoNxN 2026: 6.68Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2026: 8.36West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2026: 8.08Agoura Summer 2026: 8.38Temecula Valley Summer 2026: 9.09Temecula Valley Back To School 2026: 7.446.6520.2212 Jan 201922 Aug 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 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.