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Matthew McMillan

3×3 · top 7.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2012 · 2012MCMI01

Matthew McMillan has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.99, set at WPI Fall Cube Fest 2017, puts him in the top 7.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,080th in the United States. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 66 competitions since October 2012, he has put 1,068 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.31 in October 2012 to 9.99, a 63% improvement. Matthew has entered 66 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.4% of 284,439 all-time
9.99
signature single · WPI Fall Cube Fest 2017
1,068
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.9913.43
top 7.4%4,080 / 59,724
Pyraminx4.456.79
top 10.0%2,587 / 28,708
2×23.944.80
top 25.7%10,111 / 40,951
Skewb6.7510.95
top 31.7%5,251 / 18,907
4×456.2758.63
top 32.2%5,118 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed24.5827.37
top 33.1%4,333 / 15,683
5×51:45.961:52.68
top 39.9%3,217 / 9,401
3×3 Fewest Moves38 moves52.67
top 40.9%879 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded3:54.306:09.29
top 66.7%1,389 / 2,092
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 19:24—
early days — 1 solve555 / 731

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

Harvard Fall 2012: 27.31MIT Fall 2012: 23.16Harvard Spring 2013: 20.13Harvard Fall 2013: 23.27Lexington Fall 2013: 21.11Lexington Spring 2014: 17.94US Nationals 2014: 18.06Harvard Fall 2014: 16.82Lexington Fall 2014: 17.41MIT Fall 2014: 15.67Lexington Spring 2015: 15.29Melrose Spring 2015: 15.01US Nationals 2015: 15.63Norwich Summer 2015: 15.27Lexington Fall 2015: 14.16Northeastern Fall 2015: 15.49MIT Fall 2015: 14.16Melrose Winter 2016: 12.25Weston Spring 2016: 12.48MIT Spring 2016: 12.72Northeastern Spring 2016: 14.34Slow N Steady Spring 2016: 12.13Lexington Summer 2016: 12.27US Nationals 2016: 23.34UMass ODS Fall 2016: 13.86WPI Winter Cube Day 2017: 14.78New York City Winter 2017: 12.36Weston Spring 2017: 12.05Maybe Melrose Spring 2017: 11.56Quabbin Spring 2017: 11.08Midcoast Cubing 2017: 11.23Lexington Summer 2017: 11.99CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 12.19WPI Fall Cube Fest 2017: 9.99Weston Fall 2017: 11.28Cubing with the Viking 2017: 13.88Framingham Frozen Fingers 2018: 13.63BA Cube Fest 2018: 11.88WPI Winter Cube Day 2018: 10.18BU Spring 2018: 13.54CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 13.33CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 11.63Connect Community 2018: 14.57BA Fall Cube Fest 2018: 11.91The Battle of Lexington 2018: 13.29Boston University Winter 2019: 13.11Salem Cube Trials 2019: 12.08CCPA Open 2019: 12.24Massachusetts Championship 2019: 13.25Quabbin Summer 2019: 12.66Bay Area Speedcubin' 24 2020: 13.45Deerfield Winter 2022: 16.40Silver City Side Events 2023: 14.48Empire State Fall Favorites 2023: 13.34WPI Winter 2024: 13.19Saint John's Showdown 2024: 12.659.9927.316 Oct 201227 Apr 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.

  • Sam Schultz — met in 170 rounds, finished ahead 23 times
  • Tim Reynolds — met in 164 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
  • JP Bulman — met in 157 rounds, finished ahead 10 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.99 away.
  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.45 away.

Targets move as he improves.