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Matt Mao

Square-1 · top 0.35% of 25,662 all-time · competing since July 2023 · 2023MAOS01

Matt Mao has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 5.24, set at SacCubing XXIII 2026, puts him in the top 0.35% of the 25,662 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in China. Until October 2018, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 40 competitions since July 2023, he has put 1,666 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 74% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.40 in August 2023 to 6.57, a 30% improvement. Matt has entered 40 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 0.35% of 25,662 all-time
5.24
signature single · SacCubing XXIII 2026
1,666
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 74% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
Square-15.246.25
top 0.35%4 / 1,373
2×20.921.71
top 0.41%33 / 15,939
Clock3.083.66
top 0.84%9 / 1,887
3×36.577.93
top 0.92%349 / 28,499
Pyraminx1.883.54
top 0.95%109 / 10,269
3×3 one-handed9.8412.10
top 0.96%86 / 5,994
Megaminx37.2841.82
top 1.0%24 / 1,693
4×428.3432.93
top 1.9%189 / 5,999
3×3 blindfolded28.7344.25
top 3.8%61 / 1,184
Skewb2.824.18
top 4.2%225 / 5,030
5×557.341:02.44
top 4.3%213 / 2,857
3×3 Fewest Moves26 moves31.67
top 6.3%61 / 1,071
7×72:53.893:05.42
top 8.9%191 / 1,274
6×62:02.242:09.47
top 11.9%260 / 1,363
4×4 blindfolded5:08.72—
top 22.7%43 / 149
5×5 blindfolded13:53.00—
early days — 1 solve43 / 97
3×3 Multi-Blind6 of 7 cubes · 38:39—
early days — 1 solve108 / 279

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

Berkeley Summer 2023: 9.40SacCubing XV 2023: 10.73Bay Area Speedcubin' 53 - Berkeley 2023: 8.41Berkeley Fall 2023: 9.12Bay Area Speedcubin' 55 - San Ramon 2024: 9.48Bay Area Speedcubin' 58 - Berkeley 2024: 9.46Bay Area Speedcubin' 61 - San Jose 2024: 8.62Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 8.08Davis Summer 2024: 8.32SacCubing XVIII 2024: 8.38Bay Area Speedcubin' 65 - Berkeley 2024: 8.73Berkeley Fall 2024: 8.87Davis Fall 2024: 7.96Cool Down Berkeley 2024: 7.87Bay Area Speedcubin' 66 - Belmont 2024: 8.20Rocklin Winter 2024: 8.73Bay Area Speedcubin' 67 - San Ramon 2025: 7.22Berkeley Winter 2025: 8.31Bay Area Side Events Day 2025: 8.21Rock-Cube-Lin Qualifier 2025: 6.57SacCubing XX 2025: 7.89Belmont Spring 2025: 7.81Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.97Davis Summer 2025: 7.35Benicia Open 2025: 7.82San Ramon Fall 2025: 7.42Berkeley Fall 2025: 8.15Yuba City Fall 2025: 7.10Dublin California Open 2025: 7.11Bay Area Speedcubin' 68 - Belmont 2025: 7.32SacCubing XXII 2026: 7.05Davis Winter 2026: 7.75Berkeley Spring 2026: 6.90SacCubing XXIII 2026: 6.88Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 8.14Berkeley Fall 2026: 7.476.5710.7326 Aug 202311 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-5 Square-1 single — 70 people have one; it is 0.24 away.
  • A sub-3 Clock single — 248 people have one; it is 0.08 away.

Targets move as he improves.