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Matthew Ji

3×3 · top 0.88% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2023 · 2023JIMA01

Matthew Ji has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.53, set at PR Time in Burnaby 2025, puts him in the top 0.88% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 87th in Canada. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since January 2023, he has put 558 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.52 in January 2023 to 6.53, a 58% improvement. Matthew has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.88% of 284,439 all-time
6.53
signature single · PR Time in Burnaby 2025
558
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×36.5311.11
top 0.88%87 / 10,392
2×21.243.19
top 1.2%79 / 7,173
Pyraminx3.476.87
top 5.3%190 / 4,858
4×436.7539.14
top 8.4%196 / 3,118
3×3 one-handed18.1824.89
top 15.5%328 / 2,620
Skewb4.817.73
top 16.7%370 / 2,907
Clock9.3213.86
top 21.6%190 / 1,029
Square-119.3024.43
top 26.3%228 / 952
5×51:30.711:40.21
top 27.9%337 / 1,499
Megaminx1:40.831:57.70
top 35.1%368 / 1,375
7×74:29.665:14.89
top 41.0%166 / 503
6×63:14.973:23.70
top 48.1%252 / 665
3×3 Fewest Moves44 moves—
early days — 1 solve182 / 283
3×3 blindfolded9:41.55—
early days — 1 solve341 / 351

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

Richmond Favourites 2023: 15.52Nanaimo Swing into Spring 2023: 14.78Cubing on Par B 2023: 15.88Vancouver Pride 2023: 14.48Richmond Summer Open 2023: 13.64Canada's Best in the West 2024: 10.98Burnaby Basics 2024: 10.15Vancouver Newcomers Morning 2024: 10.56Vancouver's on Tracks 2024: 11.60PR Time in Burnaby 2025: 6.53Vancouver Newcomers 2025: 11.57Warm Up Vancouver 2025: 9.43Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 10.42Burnaby Winter 2026: 8.91Western Ontario Winter 2026: 10.176.5315.8814 Jan 202314 Mar 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 0.53 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.24 away.

Targets move as he improves.