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Clay Matthews

3×3 · top 64.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2025 · 2025MATT02

Clay Matthews has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 30.91, set at Solving in Sale 2025, puts him in the top 64.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7,120th in Australia. Across 2 competitions since January 2025, he has put 35 official solves on the record across five events. His 2×2 best has come down from 24.03 in January 2025 to 11.16, a 54% improvement. Clay has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 64.1% of 284,439 all-time
30.91
signature single · Solving in Sale 2025
35
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×330.9136.79
top 64.1%7,120 / 11,709
2×211.1613.68
top 82.0%6,920 / 8,567
4×42:10.32
early days — 2 solves2,675 / 3,051
Pyraminx16.4920.01
top 86.4%5,311 / 5,993
Skewb20.0423.65
top 89.7%3,177 / 3,534

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

Melbourne Summer 2025: 24.03Solving in Sale 2025: 11.1611.1624.0324 Jan 202511 Apr 2025

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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-30 3×3 single — 177,856 people have one; it is 0.91 away.
  • A sub-10 2×2 single — 145,545 people have one; it is 1.16 away.

Targets move as he improves.