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Matthew Hayden

3×3 · top 10.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2015 · 2015HAYD01

Matthew Hayden has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.84, set at Cubing Under the Stars 2018, puts him in the top 10.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 919th in Canada. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since January 2015, he has put 251 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.28 in January 2015 to 10.84, a 33% improvement. Matthew has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 10.0% of 284,439 all-time
10.84
signature single · Cubing Under the Stars 2018
251
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×310.8413.08
top 10.0%919 / 10,392
Pyraminx6.378.09
top 22.8%967 / 4,858
4×451.6459.15
top 26.7%685 / 3,118
5×51:30.291:43.59
top 27.6%334 / 1,499
2×24.264.87
top 29.8%2,028 / 7,173
3×3 one-handed27.4733.92
top 40.6%907 / 2,620
7×75:10.575:24.30
top 54.0%228 / 503
6×63:44.33
early days — 2 solves341 / 665
Skewb10.9918.84
top 60.8%1,697 / 2,907
Megaminx3:15.62
early days — 3 solves1,003 / 1,375

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

Edmonton Open Winter 2015: 16.28Edmonton Open Summer 2015: 15.94Edmonton Open Winter 2016: 15.63Edmonton Limited Summer 2016: 13.82Too Much Cubing 2017: 13.20QUALberta 2017: 12.74Cubing Under the Stars 2018: 10.8410.8416.2810 Jan 201520 Jan 2018

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.

  • Paris Dorn — met in 57 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
  • Alex Mutch — met in 56 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
  • Noah Wilde — met in 48 rounds, finished ahead 16 times

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.84 away.
  • A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 0.37 away.

Targets move as he improves.