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Matthew Lowe

3×3 · top 0.99% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2014 · 2014LOWE01

Matthew Lowe has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.66, set at Bolton Spring 2024, puts him in the top 0.99% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 84th in the United Kingdom. Until January 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 69 competitions since November 2014, he has put 3,366 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.34 in November 2014 to 6.66, a 46% improvement. Matthew has entered 69 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.99% of 284,439 all-time
6.66
signature single · Bolton Spring 2024
3,366
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×36.668.44
top 0.99%84 / 6,689
4×426.2231.76
top 1.1%32 / 2,071
2×21.903.76
top 4.1%298 / 4,895
3×3 one-handed13.1717.51
top 4.7%89 / 1,851
5×558.281:07.95
top 4.7%67 / 1,151
Clock7.948.80
top 15.0%212 / 1,232
Pyraminx5.8012.36
top 18.5%719 / 3,656
6×62:30.502:36.91
top 25.8%156 / 548
Skewb7.2011.88
top 35.2%830 / 2,421
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves38.33
early days — 3 solves158 / 372
7×74:47.015:02.23
top 46.8%229 / 459

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

UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2014: 12.34The Glorious North 2015: 9.30August Bank Holiday Competition 2015: 10.77UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 11.66Manchester Open 2016: 9.84Macclesfield Open 2016: 8.95August Bank Holiday Competition 2016: 9.97UK Championship 2016: 10.85Birmingham Open 2016: 8.61Manchester Open 2017: 10.86Peterborough Open 2017: 10.70Newcastle-under-Lyme Open 2017: 10.21Crawley Open 2017: 10.21London Open 2017: 9.98World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 9.09August Bank Holiday Competition 2017: 9.46Guildford Open 2017: 9.94UK Championship 2017: 8.36Welsh Open 2018: 10.38Manchester Open 2018: 9.23High Wycombe Open 2018: 7.71Peterborough Open 2018: 9.14Stratford-upon-Avon Open 2018: 9.73UK Championship 2018: 8.22Weston-super-Mare Open 2018: 8.03Cambridge Open 2018: 8.02Manchester Open 2019: 8.92Welsh Open 2019: 7.93Chester Open 2019: 8.44Lincoln Open 2019: 8.41High Wycombe Open 2019: 8.03British Summer Open 2019: 8.65Leeds Open 2019: 8.19August Bank Holiday Celebration 2019: 8.47UK Championship 2019: 8.79Doncaster Open 2020: 7.82Manchester Open 2020: 8.53Wakefield Open 2022: 9.59Wakefield Spring 2022: 8.31Chester Spring 2022: 8.02Glasgow Open 2022: 6.83Carlisle Summer 2022: 8.14Lincoln Summer 2022: 7.28August Bank Holiday Cheltenham 2022: 8.02Wakefield Autumn 2022: 7.80Droitwich Spa Autumn 2022: 7.49Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 8.75Belfast Winter 2023: 7.80Glasgow Winter 2023: 7.91Guildford Winter 2023: 8.38Lincolnshire Winter 2023: 8.14Bolton Spring 2023: 7.44Wakefield Spring 2023: 8.73Peterborough Summer 2023: 7.95Irish Championship 2023: 8.37Bolton Summer 2023: 8.49Lincolnshire Summer 2023: 7.49August Bank Holiday Manchester 2023: 8.28Wakefield Autumn 2023: 8.56Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 8.34Liverpool Winter 2023: 8.06Manchester Winter 2024: 7.88Bolton Spring 2024: 6.66Newcastle Tyneside Spring 2024: 8.60Wakefield Summer 2024: 7.80Manchester June 2024: 7.64Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 8.466.6612.341 Nov 20141 Nov 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.66 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 1.22 away.

Targets move as he improves.