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Matthew Rich

3×3 · top 0.59% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2015 · 2015RICH02

Matthew Rich has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.17, set at Cubing in the Lion's Den 2024, puts him in the top 0.59% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 397th in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 42 competitions since April 2015, he has put 1,228 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.81 in April 2015 to 6.17, a 55% improvement. Matthew has entered 42 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.59% of 284,439 all-time
6.17
signature single · Cubing in the Lion's Den 2024
1,228
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.178.46
top 0.59%397 / 59,724
4×428.0532.61
top 1.8%301 / 19,072
2×21.753.43
top 3.3%1,289 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed13.3816.44
top 5.0%713 / 15,683
Pyraminx4.739.69
top 11.6%3,003 / 28,708
3×3 blindfolded57.71—
top 12.3%237 / 2,092
5×51:15.191:32.08
top 15.5%1,195 / 9,401
6×64:35.99—
early days — 1 solve3,025 / 4,196

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

Lexington Spring 2015: 13.81Lexington Fall 2015: 13.15Liberty Science 2015: 9.41Big Apple Cube Clash 2016: 9.59Weston Spring 2016: 10.06Melrose Summer 2016: 8.29Hudson Valley Open Fall 2016: 8.83UMass ODS Fall 2016: 8.36Monument Mountain Winter 2017: 7.62Weston Spring 2017: 10.12Hudson Valley Spring 2017: 8.77CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 9.90Hudson Valley Open 2018: 10.05Hudson Valley Winter 2019: 8.00Hudson Valley Summer 2019: 8.90Babylon Fall 2021: 8.97Slow N Steady Fall 2021: 8.33Pennsylvania Championship 2022: 9.21Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 7.30Owings Mills Summer 2022: 8.64Silver Spring Summer 2022: 8.30Slow N Steady Fall 2022: 8.38River Hill Fall 2022: 8.12New York Yopen 2022: 7.94Slow N Steady Fall 2023: 7.61River Hill Fall 2023: 6.49Cubing in the Lion's Den 2024: 6.17UMBC Winter 2024: 7.40Slow N Steady Spring 2024: 7.61River Hill Spring 2024: 7.25Bethesda Summer Showdown 2024: 8.32UMBC Fall 2024: 8.05Rutgers Winter 2025: 8.11Flushing Glow Open AM 2025: 6.97Liberty Science Center Open A 2025: 8.51Slow N Steady UMD Spring 2025: 7.49River Hill Spring 2025: 8.20River Hill Fall 2025: 8.11TJHSST Winter 2026: 6.78Penn Cube Day Spring 2026: 7.96Welcome to Washington D.C. 2026: 7.636.1713.8111 Apr 201525 Apr 2026

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.

  • Livia Kleiner — met in 115 rounds, finished ahead 27 times
  • Stone Payne — met in 89 rounds, finished ahead 52 times
  • Eric Zhao — met in 81 rounds, finished ahead 34 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.17 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 3.05 away.

Targets move as he improves.