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Matthew Powell

Clock · top 0.084% of 32,048 all-time · competing since November 2023 · 2023POWE10

Matthew Powell has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 2.15, set at Odd July Singapore 2026, puts him in the top 0.084% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3rd in Singapore. Until August 2024, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since November 2023, he has put 585 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His Clock best has come down from 14.09 in November 2023 to 2.15, an 85% improvement. Matthew has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 0.084% of 32,048 all-time
2.15
signature single · Odd July Singapore 2026
585
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSingapore
Clock2.152.71
top 0.084%3 / 178
Pyraminx1.723.01
top 0.7%15 / 645
2×21.252.78
top 1.2%25 / 1,053
3×38.5010.41
top 3.7%104 / 1,546
Skewb2.823.67
top 4.1%24 / 353
4×437.8348.00
top 9.6%83 / 462
3×3 one-handed17.4620.25
top 13.7%93 / 460
Square-113.8420.88
top 13.8%37 / 132
Megaminx2:06.72—
top 49.5%124 / 195
5×52:35.88—
top 68.6%193 / 251

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

Singapore Marine Parade Speedcubing 2023: 14.09MYHM Singapore Championship 2024: 7.18Cool Down Singapore 2024: 4.11Please Don't DNF Singapore 2024: 5.15A New Year in Singapore 2025: 4.14Singapore Two-Day Nov 2025: 3.03Singapore Sprint November 2025: 2.77Singapore Warm Up January 2026: 2.50Singapore Championship 2026: 2.42Back to Downtown Singapore 2026: 2.33Odd July Singapore 2026: 2.15Singapore Aug Even 2026: 2.862.1514.0918 Nov 20232 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, Clock. 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-2 Clock single — 17 people have one; it is 0.15 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.72 away.

Targets move as he improves.