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Matthew Kwan

3×3 · top 10.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2016 · 2016KWAN01

Matthew Kwan has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.13, set at Indianapolis Cubes Winter 2019, puts him in the top 10.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,010th in Canada. Across 11 competitions since June 2016, he has put 290 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 87% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.32 in June 2016 to 11.13, a 52% improvement. Matthew has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 10.9% of 284,439 all-time
11.13
signature single · Indianapolis Cubes Winter 2019
290
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 87% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×311.1313.16
top 10.9%1,010 / 10,392
2×22.793.64
top 11.9%788 / 7,173
Skewb5.188.28
top 19.5%446 / 2,907
3×3 one-handed22.5527.34
top 27.5%597 / 2,620
Pyraminx7.188.65
top 29.3%1,280 / 4,858
Square-123.1427.82
top 35.0%301 / 952
4×459.621:08.11
top 36.1%957 / 3,118
Clock14.2219.27
top 44.8%397 / 1,029
Megaminx2:09.912:38.70
top 51.1%586 / 1,375
5×52:41.78
top 71.2%960 / 1,499

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

Indiana 2016: 23.32CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 15.00Michigan 2017: 11.43Florence Winter 2019: 15.32Indianapolis Cubes 2019: 13.25Cubing For Kyle 2019: 12.45Wildcat Spring 2019: 11.44Chicago Area Twist Spring 2019: 12.71Battle for Toledo 2019: 14.22Michigan 2019: 11.69Indianapolis Cubes Winter 2019: 11.1311.1323.3225 Jun 201614 Dec 2019

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 1.13 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.79 away.

Targets move as he improves.