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Matt Lee

3×3 · top 1.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2016 · 2016LEEM02

Matt Lee has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.83, set at Brazos Cubing Spring 2025, puts him in the top 1.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 715th in the United States. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 63 competitions since March 2016, he has put 2,469 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.04 in March 2016 to 6.83, a 78% improvement. Matt has entered 63 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.1% of 284,439 all-time
6.83
signature single · Brazos Cubing Spring 2025
2,469
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.838.35
top 1.1%715 / 59,724
Skewb1.924.53
top 1.2%178 / 18,907
2×21.693.34
top 3.0%1,178 / 40,951
Pyraminx3.494.80
top 5.4%1,411 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed15.5216.93
top 9.2%1,221 / 15,683
4×439.0646.93
top 11.0%1,627 / 19,072
Square-117.3927.72
top 21.8%1,450 / 6,743
5×51:27.611:40.91
top 25.4%1,983 / 9,401
Clock10.1011.33
top 25.6%1,964 / 8,927
Megaminx1:30.491:44.96
top 28.5%1,980 / 7,841
3×3 Fewest Moves41 moves—
early days — 1 solve1,101 / 2,040

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

Dallas Spring 2016: 31.04Do the Cube at the DoSeum 2016: 24.78Austin Summer Open 2016: 22.27Cajun Cube Clash 2016: 21.59Houston Cube Blast 2016: 22.04Westlake Open 2016: 18.74Oklahoma Fall 2016: 18.78South East Texas Open 2017: 14.26Dallas Winter Variation 2017: 11.11College Station Qualifier 2017: 15.14Don't Mess With Texas 2017: 13.87Texas Two-Day Showdown 2017: 13.31CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 13.15Southern Championships 2017: 12.44Cajun Cube Clash 2017: 13.78Yeehaw 2017: 12.72Parity for Charity 2017: 12.57South East Texas Open 2018: 11.60Howdy Partner 2018: 10.46Spring Forward 2018: 11.00CubingUSA Southern Championship 2018: 12.37Bayou Bash 2018: 9.47Cajun Cube Clash 2018: 11.64DFW Cubing Fiesta June 2018: 9.95CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 8.71DFW Cubing Fiesta August 2018: 11.67Trinity Valley Open 2018: 11.84Fleur-de-lis Fall 2018: 10.43Southeast Texas Winter 2019: 11.21Katy Cubing 2019: 11.16Lone Star Cubing 2019: 10.31CubingUSA Southern Championship 2019: 10.88Cajun Cube Clash 2019: 9.81Dallas Warm Up 2019: 10.88Houston Winter 2020: 10.29CubingUSA Southern Championship 2022: 8.74Cubing For Water Winter 2023: 8.99Cube Against Cancer Texas 2023: 8.35Houston Spring Side Events 2023: 7.41Louisiana Mega Two Day 2023: 7.24CubingUSA Southern Championship 2023: 8.63Space City Summer 2023: 7.77CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 9.52Brazos Cubing Fall 2023: 7.88Texas Championship 2023: 8.32Space City Winter 2024: 8.44Cube Against Cancer Texas 2024: 7.85DFW Megacomp 2024: 7.45Turning at Tompkins Spring 2024: 7.78Louisiana Championship 2024: 7.85Humble Cube Rumble Summer 2024: 7.22CubingUSA Southern Championship 2024: 8.15Brazos Cubing Fall 2024: 8.05Texas Championship 2024: 7.24Space City Winter TX 2025: 7.89Cube Against Cancer Houston 2025: 7.41Brazos Cubing Spring 2025: 6.83Corpus Christi Summer 2025: 7.32Houston Back to School 2025: 7.69Baton Rouge Winter 2026: 8.07Brazos Cubing Winter 2026: 8.50Cube Against Cancer Houston 2026: 8.12GAN Southern Championship 2026: 7.926.8331.0426 Mar 201611 Jun 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.

  • Dylan Miller — met in 329 rounds, finished ahead 58 times
  • Seth Talbot — met in 248 rounds, finished ahead 118 times
  • Riley Norrid — met in 244 rounds, finished ahead 26 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.83 away.
  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.92 away.

Targets move as he improves.