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Matthew Taday

3×3 · top 67.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2016 · 2016TADA02

Matthew Taday has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 33.24, set at Solving Hunger Virginia 2019, puts him in the top 67.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 40,940th in the United States. Across 14 competitions since October 2016, he has put 87 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 21% around a typical one; 99% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:46.48 in October 2016 to 33.24, a 69% improvement. Matthew has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 67.9% of 284,439 all-time
33.24
signature single · Solving Hunger Virginia 2019
87
official solves on the record
21%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 99% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×333.241:04.62
top 67.9%40,940 / 59,724
2×212.1113.77
top 84.7%35,170 / 40,951
Pyraminx41.26
early days — 1 solve28,664 / 28,708

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

Severna Park Fall 2016: 1:46.48Virginia Open Winter 2017: 1:13.01Virginia Open Spring 2017: 1:25.21NovaCube 2017: 1:31.78Rally In The Valley 2017: 1:20.93Gobbler Cube Day 2017: 1:16.01TJHSST Fall 2017: 1:06.47NovaCube 2018: 55.40RVA Spring 2018: 1:04.30Fredericksburg Summer Open 2018: 56.51VES Spring 2019: 59.43Woodberry Forest School Cubing 2019: 59.94Solving Hunger Virginia 2019: 33.24ODU Big Blue Fall 2019: 1:05.4133.241:46.4829 Oct 201623 Nov 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-30 3×3 single — 177,856 people have one; it is 3.24 away.
  • A sub-12 2×2 single — 157,609 people have one; it is 0.11 away.

Targets move as he improves.