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Matthew Horan

3×3 · top 9.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2017 · 2017HORA02

Matthew Horan has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.58, set at UCD Cube Days 2025, puts him in the top 9.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 145th in Ireland. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since December 2017, he has put 885 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 71% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.75 in December 2017 to 10.58, a 60% improvement. Matthew has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.2% of 284,439 all-time
10.58
signature single · UCD Cube Days 2025
885
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 71% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIreland
3×310.5811.57
top 9.2%145 / 1,427
4×438.7544.58
top 10.6%66 / 579
5×51:14.071:20.16
top 14.6%44 / 296
Megaminx1:12.081:32.10
top 16.9%52 / 283
Pyraminx5.678.15
top 17.6%204 / 911
2×23.525.35
top 20.5%283 / 1,163
6×62:21.342:29.32
top 21.2%28 / 142
Clock9.4211.84
top 22.1%81 / 331
7×73:39.233:55.06
top 23.2%23 / 108
Skewb5.808.64
top 24.2%167 / 624
3×3 one-handed23.4127.47
top 29.9%110 / 448
3×3 Fewest Moves43 moves—
early days — 1 solve47 / 88
3×3 blindfolded4:54.60—
early days — 1 solve52 / 59
Square-157.89—
top 82.3%164 / 194

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

Dublin Open 2017: 26.75Irish Championship 2018: 16.36Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2019: 16.42Rubik's Irish Championship 2024: 14.64Cubing with the Kilkenny Cats Sunday 2024: 13.62Don't Fail Kinsale 2024: 11.22Marble City Cubing IE 2025: 12.56Cork Spring 2025: 12.17Let's Go Carlow 2025: 12.57UCD Cube Days 2025: 10.58Don't Go Slow in Wicklow 2025: 10.65PBs in Phibblestown 2025: 10.75Dublin Summer Solving 2025: 11.75Cubing with the Kilkenny Cats 2025: 11.88Rubik's Irish Championship 2025: 10.62Lets Go Carlow 2026: 12.65Rubik's Irish Championship 2026: 10.9610.5826.752 Dec 201724 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.58 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 8.75 away.

Targets move as he improves.