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Matthew Bidwell

3×3 · top 0.52% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2018 · 2018BIDW02

Matthew Bidwell has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.05, set at DFW Cubing Winter 2024, puts him in the top 0.52% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 346th in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 38 competitions since June 2018, he has put 1,789 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.25 in June 2018 to 6.05, a 67% improvement. Matthew has entered 38 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.52% of 284,439 all-time
6.05
signature single · DFW Cubing Winter 2024
1,789
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.058.71
top 0.52%346 / 59,724
2×21.633.10
top 2.7%1,066 / 40,951
4×430.3035.96
top 3.0%486 / 19,072
Pyraminx3.226.11
top 4.4%1,156 / 28,708
5×51:01.191:10.85
top 6.2%501 / 9,401
3×3 Fewest Moves27 moves32.33
top 8.0%187 / 2,040
Skewb3.715.50
top 9.0%1,384 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed16.0320.58
top 10.3%1,365 / 15,683
3×3 blindfolded51.661:09.42
top 10.5%206 / 2,092
6×62:07.632:18.83
top 14.4%522 / 4,196
Megaminx1:10.381:18.98
top 15.9%1,083 / 7,841
7×73:19.703:22.55
top 16.2%451 / 3,184
Square-116.5722.34
top 20.0%1,349 / 6,743
3×3 Multi-Blind9 of 9 cubes · 54:59—
top 20.4%142 / 731
Clock9.6511.12
top 23.4%1,798 / 8,927
4×4 blindfolded8:24.7219:11.00
top 47.0%190 / 440
5×5 blindfolded32:11.00—
early days — 1 solve200 / 218

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

Turning in Texas 2018: 18.25Longhorn Fall 2018: 13.17Lone Star Cubing 2019: 10.55Austin Summer 2019: 9.88Waco Cube Assembly 2019: 10.23Houston Winter 2020: 10.29DFW Cubing Summer 2022: 9.28Texas BarbeCubing 2022: 8.37CubingUSA Texas Championship 2022: 8.32Cedar Park Winter 2023: 8.40CubingUSA Southern Championship 2023: 8.42Cube With Attention in Denton 2023: 7.59Texas Championship 2023: 7.47DFW Cubing Winter 2024: 6.05DFW Cubing Spring 2024: 7.89DFW Cubing Summer 2024: 7.57Richardson Cubing Afternoon 2024: 7.74DFW Back to School 2024: 7.50The Heart of Texas 2025: 8.65Cube Against Cancer DFW 2025: 8.00Cubing Simple in Temple 2025: 8.33DFW Cubing Spring 2025: 8.33WisconsiNxN 2025: 8.57Cube On in Richardson 2025: 7.85Arkansas Championship 2026: 7.28DFW Cubing Spring 2026: 7.49Cube Against Cancer DFW 2026: 8.406.0518.2516 Jun 20182 May 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.05 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.63 away.

Targets move as he improves.