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Matt Prestwich

3×3 · top 3.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2016 · 2016PRES04

Matt Prestwich has been competing for 10 years. Their best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.12, set at Manchester June 2025, puts them in the top 3.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 249th in the United Kingdom. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 57 competitions since July 2016, they have put 3,296 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, their 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 96% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Their 3×3 best has come down from 25.01 in July 2016 to 8.12, a 68% improvement. Matt has entered 57 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.0% of 284,439 all-time
8.12
signature single · Manchester June 2025
3,296
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 96% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×38.1210.62
top 3.0%249 / 6,689
Skewb2.984.85
top 4.9%111 / 2,421
Clock5.215.80
top 5.0%74 / 1,232
Pyraminx3.525.36
top 5.5%208 / 3,656
3×3 blindfolded45.711:10.99
top 8.5%42 / 311
4×436.8940.90
top 8.6%202 / 2,071
2×22.473.94
top 8.6%582 / 4,895
3×3 one-handed15.8020.72
top 9.8%199 / 1,851
3×3 Fewest Moves28 moves31.67
top 9.9%47 / 372
5×51:09.431:25.91
top 11.2%155 / 1,151
Square-112.7216.29
top 11.3%114 / 778
3×3 Multi-Blind12 of 12 cubes · 59:10—
top 13.4%31 / 126
Megaminx1:19.691:29.31
top 21.5%253 / 966
6×62:30.152:48.91
top 25.7%155 / 548
7×74:18.684:24.49
top 37.2%174 / 459
4×4 blindfolded7:12.658:36.12
top 38.2%48 / 84
5×5 blindfolded15:42.00—
top 44.2%26 / 50

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

Macclesfield Open 2016: 25.01Manchester Open 2017: 17.14Peterborough Open 2017: 16.04London Open 2017: 16.51Guildford Open 2017: 14.54UK Championship 2017: 14.73Weston-super-Mare Open 2017: 13.76Welsh Open 2018: 13.23Manchester Open 2018: 14.67Guildford Open 2018: 12.03High Wycombe Open 2018: 12.86Irish Championship 2018: 12.62August Bank Holiday Competition 2018: 13.53Stratford-upon-Avon Open 2018: 11.86UK Championship 2018: 13.05Weston-super-Mare Open 2018: 11.56Cambridge Open 2018: 10.98Manchester Open 2019: 11.88Denmark & Friends 2019: 14.74Chester Open 2019: 12.31Cork Open 2019: 12.58Lincoln Open 2019: 12.08British Summer Open 2019: 12.18Leeds Open 2019: 12.58Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2019: 12.34Belgian Open 2019: 12.55UK Championship 2019: 11.35Every Event Éire 2019: 12.00Weston-super-Mare Open 2019: 11.30Fontwell Open 2020: 11.99Doncaster Open 2020: 11.63Manchester Open 2020: 11.72Wakefield Open 2022: 10.90Weston-super-Mare Open 2022: 11.35Stevenage Summer 2022: 10.59Wakefield Spring 2023: 10.92Crewe Spring 2024: 10.15Wakefield Summer 2024: 9.06Kewbz UK Open 2024: 9.96Crewe Favourites 2025: 9.42Manchester January 2025: 11.13Crewe Winter 2025: 11.02Leeds Spring 2025: 9.44Manchester Spring 2025: 9.52Crewe Spring 2025: 10.43Weston-super-Mare Spring 2025: 9.85Manchester June 2025: 8.12Manchester October 2025: 8.77Stevenage 10th Anniversary 2025: 9.91Crewe Winter 2026: 9.46Crewe Spring 2026: 9.31Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 10.018.1225.0130 Jul 201616 Jul 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 their.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.12 away.
  • A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.98 away.

Targets move as they improves.