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Matthew Simpson

3×3 · top 17.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2017 · 2017SIMP04

Matthew Simpson has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.93, set at Canadian Championship 2019, puts him in the top 17.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,612th in Canada. Across 6 competitions since June 2017, he has put 104 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.33 in June 2017 to 12.93, a 51% improvement. Matthew has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 17.2% of 284,439 all-time
12.93
signature single · Canadian Championship 2019
104
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×312.9315.38
top 17.2%1,612 / 10,392
2×23.495.13
top 20.1%1,347 / 7,173
Skewb6.1615.95
top 27.0%650 / 2,907
4×41:06.531:18.62
top 43.5%1,172 / 3,118
5×52:00.732:09.23
top 49.6%649 / 1,499
3×3 one-handed37.5145.41
top 61.6%1,468 / 2,620
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 16:16
early days — 1 solve85 / 112
3×3 blindfolded4:23.92
early days — 2 solves257 / 351
6×64:56.92
early days — 1 solve488 / 665
Pyraminx15.1517.03
top 82.4%4,137 / 4,858
7×77:55.35
early days — 1 solve424 / 503

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

Newmarket Open 2017: 26.33Michigan 2017: 20.30Pickering Spring 2018: 17.57Ajax Winter 2019: 13.62Return to Toronto 2019: 14.79Canadian Championship 2019: 12.9312.9326.3317 Jun 201726 Jul 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.93 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.49 away.

Targets move as he improves.