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Kevin Matthews

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 1.5% of 12,294 all-time · competing since July 2010 · 2010MATT02

Kevin Matthews has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 21 moves, set at Washington Championship 2020, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in Canada. Across 180 competitions since July 2010, he has put 6,200 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.31 in July 2010 to 7.26, a 78% improvement. Kevin has entered 180 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 1.5% of 12,294 all-time
21 moves
signature single · Washington Championship 2020
6,200
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×3 Fewest Moves21 moves28.67
top 1.5%4 / 283
3×37.269.62
top 1.6%168 / 10,392
3×3 Multi-Blind29 of 32 cubes · 52:57—
top 2.2%2 / 112
3×3 blindfolded25.9033.20
top 3.1%16 / 351
5×51:01.371:10.12
top 6.3%71 / 1,499
Pyraminx3.776.31
top 6.6%225 / 4,858
2×22.253.72
top 6.6%424 / 7,173
4×435.8943.03
top 7.6%176 / 3,118
6×61:52.362:02.76
top 8.1%34 / 665
3×3 one-handed15.0221.32
top 8.2%179 / 2,620
7×72:59.133:07.30
top 10.4%34 / 503
4×4 blindfolded3:40.707:21.42
top 12.3%5 / 60
Skewb4.365.46
top 13.4%288 / 2,907
Megaminx1:07.471:12.42
top 14.2%119 / 1,375
5×5 blindfolded8:20.35—
top 15.2%4 / 30
Square-120.2026.80
top 28.4%246 / 952
Clock19.1321.33
top 62.1%590 / 1,029

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

Vancouver Open 2010: 33.31Big Cubes BC 2011: 16.46Vancouver Summer 2011: 13.72Vancouver Open Summer 2012: 15.28Waterloo Open Fall 2012: 15.43Battle of Waterloo 2013: 14.94Battle of Waterloo 2014: 17.72Toronto Open Summer 2014: 14.39Toronto Open Fall 2014: 13.19Michigan Cubing Club Alpha 2015: 13.06Toronto Open Winter 2015: 12.78National Capital Region 2015: 12.08Canadian Open 2015: 12.62Michigan 2015: 10.92Vancouver Open Summer 2015: 12.05MCC Gamma 2015: 13.08Toronto Open Fall 2015: 11.25Mishawaka 3x3 Day 2016: 11.21Michigan Cubing Club Alpha 2016: 10.77Clock N' Other Stuff 2016: 12.93Summit City Open 2016: 10.16Michigan Cubing Club Beta 2016: 11.39National Capital Region 2016: 10.65Newmarket Open 2016: 10.73Indiana 2016: 9.24US Nationals 2016: 9.97Nisei Week 2016: 11.41Oregon 2016: 9.73Berkeley Summer 2016: 8.66Newport Fall 2016: 11.32Berkeley Fall 2016: 12.152FTI San Diego 2016: 10.27Caltech Winter 2017: 10.70Qualifornia 2017: 10.36Berkeley Spring 2017: 11.97OCSEF Open 2017: 9.76Cerritos Open 2017: 9.456.25 Bay Area 2017: 8.64CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 9.71San Ramon 2017: 8.83Northwest Championships 2017: 9.89Santa Barbara Fall 2017: 9.55Newport Fall 2017: 9.60TF3I San Diego 2017: 9.73Berkeley Fall 2017: 10.19Skillcon 2017: 9.93Thanks Four The Invite 2018: 10.07SacCubing III 2018: 9.71Irvine Winter 2018: 10.97Berkeley Winter 2018: 10.49Cerritos Open 2018: 9.98Nipomo Spring 2018: 9.13Thanks for the InFive 2018: 10.50A Bruin Cube Day 2018: 8.73CubingUSA Western Championship 2018: 9.80CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 9.40Nisei Week 2018: 10.62Anaheim Fall 2018: 9.40Poly Cubed 2018: 9.23Berkeley Fall 2018: 9.80CubeChella 2018: 9.55UBC Open 2019: 10.35Vancouver Island 2019: 11.01Downtown Vancouver Spring 2019: 10.25Fraser Valley Spring Open 2019: 9.62Downtown Vancouver Summer 2019: 9.23CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 11.79Puget Sound Summer 2019: 11.13Vancouver Big Cubes Open 2019: 10.48Chilliwack Cubes Fall 2019: 10.57SnoCo Fall 2019: 9.43Puget Sound NxNxN 2019: 9.52UBC Open 2020: 10.87Washington Championship 2020: 9.29Downtown Vancouver Winter 2020: 10.69BC Cubing Comeback B 2021: 9.45Richmond Open B 2021: 9.58BC Cubing Springback B 2022: 10.55Cloverdale Open 2022: 9.92Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 10.96Richmond Open Summer B 2022: 8.56Nanaimo Back to School 2022: 9.63SnoCo NxN 2022: 9.88WCC Western Championship 2022: 10.21UBC Odd Weekend 2022: 9.75Big Cubes in Bothell 2022: 10.49Lynnwood Winter 2023: 9.71Richmond Favourites 2023: 9.81Nanaimo Swing into Spring 2023: 9.95Cubing on Par A 2023: 9.57BC Spring Solving B 2023: 9.92Vancouver Pride 2023: 11.71Canadian Championship 2023: 8.45CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 9.34Richmond Summer Open 2023: 9.99Cubing Around Metrotown 2023: 10.60Vancouver Fall Fest 2023: 10.09Canada's Best in the West 2024: 9.53Burnaby Basics 2024: 9.76Vancouver Newcomers Afternoon 2024: 10.60Queen City Cubing Regina 2024: 9.95Richmond Rumble 2024: 9.29Pitt Meadows Spring Open 2024: 10.51Bellingham Spring 2024: 10.09Vancouver's on Tracks 2024: 9.32CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024: 10.88Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 8.81Ontario Championship 2024: 10.35BC Championship 2024: 9.32Vancouver Southlands Sprint 2024: 8.23Cubing With Cold Hands Whistler 2024: 10.76Tacoma Winter 2025: 10.30PR Time in Burnaby 2025: 9.20Chill Cubing in Chilliwack 2025: 10.22Vancouver Newcomers 2025: 11.12Aldergrove Clock Fest 2025: 10.22Coquitlam Crunch 2025: 8.40Penticton Lakeside 2025: 9.43Surrey Monday Open 2025: 9.02Warm Up Vancouver 2025: 9.55Warm Up Seattle 2025: 10.36Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.62White Rock's Back to Square-1 2025: 10.06Championnat Canadien 2025: 7.26Burnaby Summer 2025: 9.17Make Cutoff Maple Ridge 2025: 9.55Richmond Fall 2025: 10.61What Are the Odds Coquitlam 2025: 9.64Victoria Winter 2026: 9.01Burnaby Winter 2026: 10.50Vancouver Mini Morning 2026: 9.83Richmond Spring 2026: 9.08Spring Breeze in Burnaby 2026: 9.75Victoria Dockyard Sprint 2026: 9.71Burnaby Cubes Big & Small 2026: 9.19Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 10.10Chill Cubing in Chilliwack 2026: 9.69BC Championship 2026: 10.417.2633.313 Jul 20107 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.26 away.

Targets move as he improves.