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Malachi Severson

3×3 · top 7.1% of 288,433 all-time · competing since July 2023 · 2023SEVE05

Malachi Severson has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.87, set at Northwest Championship 2026, puts him in the top 7.1% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,975th in the United States. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 30 competitions since July 2023, he has put 715 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 52% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 48.63 in July 2023 to 9.87, an 80% improvement. Malachi has entered 30 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.1% of 288,433 all-time
9.87
signature single · Northwest Championship 2026
715
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.8712.53
top 7.1%3,975 / 60,666
2×22.503.61
top 9.0%3,564 / 41,674
Skewb5.967.91
top 25.5%4,195 / 19,164
3×3 one-handed22.8428.03
top 28.4%3,713 / 15,900
Pyraminx7.7410.00
top 34.1%9,766 / 29,168
4×41:01.251:12.32
top 37.9%6,202 / 19,354
Square-127.5849.27
top 44.8%2,947 / 6,846
Megaminx2:25.112:50.26
top 59.1%4,537 / 8,026

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

Eugene Cubing 2023: 48.63Stumptown Speedcubing Summer 2023: 39.91Kent Summer 2023: 26.65Lucky Lynnwood 2023: 28.50Salem Spooktacular 2023: 26.12Reno Winter 2024: 23.20Eugene Ice Cubing 2024: 23.22Bay Area Speedcubin' 58 - Berkeley 2024: 23.31CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024: 17.95Redding Fall 2024: 15.29Bay Area Speedcubin' 66 - Belmont 2024: 15.92Couve Cubing Fall 2024: 15.67Cubing in Southern Oregon 2025: 11.13Eugene Cubing Spring 2025: 13.92Hillsboro Newcomers 2025: 14.87West Coast Cubing Tour: Berkeley 2025: 13.44Warm Up Seattle 2025: 16.65Oregon Championship 2025: 14.60UO Fall 2025: 13.71Oregon State Fall 2025: 13.39UO Valentine's Day 2026: 12.60McMinnville Favorites 2026: 13.80Southern Oregon Game Expo 2026: 13.96Berkeley May Weekday 2026: 11.52Belmont Spring 2026: 13.28Davis County Showdown 2026: 13.56Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 13.95Hawaii Championship 2026: 11.73Northwest Championship 2026: 9.87Oregon State Fall 2026: 11.039.8748.638 Jul 20233 Oct 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-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.87 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.50 away.

Targets move as he improves.