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Matt Pyles
3×3 · top 4.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2018 · 2018PYLE01
Matt Pyles has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.93, set at Back to Square-1 Idaho 2022, puts him in the top 4.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,630th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since November 2018, he has put 282 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 84% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.32 in November 2018 to 8.93, a 62% improvement. Matt has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% 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 | 8.93 | 13.23 | top 4.7% | 2,630 / 59,724 | |
| 2×2 | 3.71 | 6.33 | top 22.8% | 8,964 / 40,951 | |
| Pyraminx | 8.93 | 22.55 | top 44.2% | 12,681 / 28,708 | |
| 4×4 | 1:33.88 | — | top 66.5% | 11,742 / 19,072 | |
| Skewb | 13.06 | 26.37 | top 70.9% | 13,352 / 18,907 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 1:21.76 | — | early days — 3 solves | 14,339 / 15,683 |
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
- 17 Dec 2022First sub-10 3×3: 8.93 at Back to Square-1 Idaho 2022.
- 16 Jul 2021First sub-15 3×3: 10.96 at Idaho Summer A 2021.
- 24 Aug 2019First sub-20 3×3: 15.98 at Back to School Idaho 2019.
- 24 Aug 2019Three personal bests in one day at Back to School Idaho 2019.
- 3 Nov 2018First competition: Idaho Spudcubing 2018. A 23.32 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Rexburg Rumble 2025 · 12 Apr 2025
- Snake River Speedsolving 2024 · 19 Oct 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Idaho Spring Speedcubing Spectacular 2024 · 20 Apr 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Spooky Solving Idaho 2023 · 28 Oct 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Utah Ice Cubing 2023 · 28 Jan 2023
- Back to Square-1 Idaho 2022 · 17 Dec 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Utah Snowball Bash 2022 · 10 Dec 2022
- Idaho French Fried 2022 · 16 Jul 2022
- Going Slow in Idaho 2022 · 7 May 2022
- Going Fast in Idaho 2022 · 19 Feb 2022
- Utah Ice Cubing 2022 · 29 Jan 2022 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Western Championship 2021 · 26 Nov 2021
- Utah Fall 2021 · 23 Oct 2021
- Idaho Summer A 2021 · 16 Jul 2021 — 2 personal bests set
- Perfect Vision Provo 2020 · 18 Jan 2020 — 1 personal best set
- Big and Skewb Utah 2019 · 16 Nov 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Resticker Utah 2019 · 21 Sep 2019
- Back to School Idaho 2019 · 24 Aug 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Idaho Spudcubing 2018 · 3 Nov 2018
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.
- Damian Wilding — met in 60 rounds, never finished ahead
- Isaac Myers — met in 57 rounds, never finished ahead
- Cade Beck — met in 47 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.93 away.
- A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.71 away.
Targets move as he improves.