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Matthew Malinak

3×3 · top 6.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2018 · 2018MALI02

Matthew Malinak has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.57, set at Texas Out of School 2019, puts him in the top 6.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,472nd in the United States. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since February 2018, he has put 396 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 71% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.66 in February 2018 to 9.57, a 49% improvement. Matthew has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.3% of 284,439 all-time
9.57
signature single · Texas Out of School 2019
396
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 71% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.5711.04
top 6.3%3,472 / 59,724
Pyraminx4.386.43
top 9.6%2,484 / 28,708
2×22.663.95
top 10.5%4,132 / 40,951
Skewb3.978.89
top 10.7%1,647 / 18,907
Megaminx1:09.321:16.02
top 15.2%1,037 / 7,841
3×3 one-handed18.8924.48
top 17.5%2,257 / 15,683
4×448.8154.39
top 23.2%3,529 / 19,072
Square-119.4625.42
top 26.7%1,753 / 6,743
Clock12.8417.12
top 38.9%3,096 / 8,927
5×52:05.822:12.75
top 52.9%4,454 / 9,401
3×3 Fewest Moves52 moves—
early days — 1 solve1,683 / 2,040
6×65:21.83—
early days — 1 solve3,479 / 4,196
7×78:50.65—
early days — 1 solve3,011 / 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

Howdy Partner 2018: 18.66CubingUSA Southern Championship 2018: 15.89Bayou Bash 2018: 14.68DFW Cubing Fiesta July 2018: 13.05DFW Cubing Fiesta September 2018: 15.15Trinity Valley Open 2018: 13.49Longhorn Fall 2018: 10.59Utah Snowball Bash 2018: 11.40Katy Cubing 2019: 10.77CubingUSA Southern Championship 2019: 10.44Texas Out of School 2019: 9.57CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 11.069.5718.663 Feb 20181 Aug 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.57 away.
  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.38 away.

Targets move as he improves.