People · United States
Matt Bahner
3×3 Fewest Moves · top 6.2% of 12,294 all-time · competing since June 2009 · 2009BAHN01
Matt Bahner has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 26 moves, set at US Nationals 2015, puts him in the top 6.2% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 149th in the United States. Across 35 competitions since June 2009, he has put 611 official solves on the record across 14 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 32.72 in June 2009 to 9.93, a 70% improvement. Matt has entered 35 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 26 moves | — | early days — 1 solve | 149 / 2,040 | |
| 3×3 | 9.93 | 12.67 | top 7.3% | 3,991 / 59,724 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.12 | 7.54 | top 13.9% | 3,642 / 28,708 | |
| 4×4 | 48.03 | 54.33 | top 22.2% | 3,360 / 19,072 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 21.01 | 24.25 | top 23.3% | 2,985 / 15,683 | |
| 2×2 | 4.25 | 5.70 | top 29.7% | 11,791 / 40,951 | |
| Megaminx | 1:41.53 | — | top 35.5% | 2,534 / 7,841 | |
| 5×5 | 1:47.41 | 2:16.52 | top 40.8% | 3,298 / 9,401 | |
| Skewb | 8.69 | 14.07 | top 46.3% | 8,194 / 18,907 | |
| Clock | 16.74 | — | early days — 3 solves | 4,517 / 8,927 | |
| Square-1 | 38.33 | 50.87 | top 63.2% | 4,168 / 6,743 | |
| 6×6 | 4:04.79 | 4:12.24 | top 67.0% | 2,609 / 4,196 | |
| 3×3 Multi-Blind | 2 of 2 cubes · 14:57 | — | early days — 1 solve | 522 / 731 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 6:14.05 | — | early days — 1 solve | 1,831 / 2,092 |
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
- 30 Jul 2022Four personal bests in one day at East Brunswick Open 2022.
- 2 Jul 2022Three personal bests in one day at New York Championship 2022.
- 12 Dec 2015First sub-10 3×3: 9.93 at MIT Fall 2015.
- 17 Oct 2015Four personal bests in one day at Dutch Open 2015.
- 6 Dec 2014Three personal bests in one day at MIT Fall 2014.
- 1 Aug 2014First sub-15 3×3: 14.75 at US Nationals 2014.
Competitions
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025
- Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024 · 18 Jul 2024
- New Jersey Championship 2024 · 25 May 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Square-Fun in Bloomsburg 2023 · 9 Sep 2023 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Nationals 2023 · 27 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023 · 17 Jun 2023 — 1 personal best set
- St. Joseph's Prep 2022 · 20 Aug 2022 — 1 personal best set
- East Brunswick Open 2022 · 30 Jul 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- New York Championship 2022 · 2 Jul 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Massachusetts Championship 2019 · 26 Jul 2019
- MIT Fall 2018 · 6 Oct 2018 — 1 personal best set
- MIT Fall 2015 · 12 Dec 2015 — 2 personal bests set
- Dutch Open 2015 · 17 Oct 2015 — 4 personal bests set
- US Nationals 2015 · 31 Jul 2015 — 1 personal best set
- Doylestown Spring 2015 · 25 Apr 2015 — 1 personal best set
- Johns Hopkins Winter 2015 · 28 Mar 2015 — 1 personal best set
- River Hill Winter 2015 · 7 Mar 2015
- Red Cross Cubing Open 2014 · 13 Dec 2014 — 1 personal best set
- MIT Fall 2014 · 6 Dec 2014 — 3 personal bests set
- US Nationals 2014 · 1 Aug 2014 — 3 personal bests set
- Carnegie Mellon Fall 2013 · 23 Nov 2013 — 2 personal bests set
- World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013 · 26 Jul 2013 — 3 personal bests set
- Levittown Open 2012 · 1 Dec 2012 — 1 personal best set
- United States National Championships 2012 · 3 Aug 2012
- United States National Championships 2011 · 12 Aug 2011 — 2 personal bests set
- Newark Head to Head 2011 · 19 Mar 2011 — 1 personal best set
- Washington DC Winter 2011 · 19 Feb 2011 — 1 personal best set
- Princeton Fall 2010 · 6 Nov 2010 — 1 personal best set
- United States Rubik's Cube Championships 2010 · 6 Aug 2010 — 6 personal bests set
- Washington DC Spring 2010 · 13 Jun 2010 — 3 personal bests set
- Baltimore Spring competition 2010 · 18 Apr 2010 — 4 personal bests set
- Washington DC Open 2010 · 30 Jan 2010 — 1 personal best set
- World Rubik's Cube Championship 2009 · 9 Oct 2009 — 2 personal bests set
- Big Cubes Summer competition 2009 · 26 Jul 2009
- Safe Haven competition 2009 · 20 Jun 2009
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.
- Tim Reynolds — met in 109 rounds, finished ahead 11 times
- Evan Liu — met in 96 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
- Kian Barry — met in 84 rounds, finished ahead 18 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.93 away.
- A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.12 away.
Targets move as he improves.