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Matthew Kinyanjui

3×3 · top 3.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022KINY01

Matthew Kinyanjui has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.52, set at Kent Summer 2024, puts him in the top 3.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,123rd in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since May 2022, he has put 475 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.07 in May 2022 to 8.52, a 35% improvement. Matthew has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.8% of 284,439 all-time
8.52
signature single · Kent Summer 2024
475
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.5211.62
top 3.8%2,123 / 59,724
4×437.3253.65
top 9.0%1,358 / 19,072
Pyraminx4.437.21
top 9.9%2,552 / 28,708
2×22.653.70
top 10.4%4,094 / 40,951
5×51:27.551:36.34
top 25.3%1,975 / 9,401
Skewb6.008.98
top 25.7%4,184 / 18,907
Megaminx1:33.671:56.89
top 30.5%2,141 / 7,841
3×3 one-handed24.4228.73
top 32.6%4,265 / 15,683
6×63:15.583:44.25
top 48.3%1,808 / 4,196
7×75:25.45—
early days — 3 solves1,736 / 3,184

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

Rose City 2022: 13.07Odd Seattle Summer 2022: 13.92Spokane Summer 2022: 10.78Inland Empire Summer 2022: 10.53SnoCo Favorites 2022: 11.30Bellevue Cubing for Children's 2022: 9.34SnoCo NxN 2022: 11.53SnoCo Veteran's Weekend A 2022: 10.36Lynnwood Winter 2023: 10.57Sleepless in Seattle 2023: 10.19Washington Championship 2023: 10.90Kent Summer 2023: 10.82Kent Spring 2024: 10.28CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024: 10.40Tacoma Summer 2024: 11.10Kent Summer 2024: 8.52Oregon Championship 2024: 10.418.5213.927 May 202213 Sep 2024

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.

  • Ash Black — met in 72 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Ruichen Li — met in 71 rounds, finished ahead 24 times
  • Greyson James — met in 70 rounds, finished ahead 11 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.52 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 7.32 away.

Targets move as he improves.