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Max Barrow-Williams

Pyraminx · top 4.3% of 129,321 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022BARR23

Max Barrow-Williams has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 3.20, set at Stevenage June 2025, puts him in the top 4.3% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 171st in the United Kingdom. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since October 2022, he has put 803 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.57 in October 2022 to 8.93, a 69% improvement. Max has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 4.3% of 129,321 all-time
3.20
signature single · Stevenage June 2025
803
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
Pyraminx3.205.98
top 4.3%171 / 3,656
2×21.963.29
top 4.5%325 / 4,895
3×38.9310.39
top 4.7%366 / 6,689
Skewb3.325.16
top 6.7%149 / 2,421
4×438.7545.52
top 10.6%249 / 2,071
Clock9.4410.75
top 22.2%307 / 1,232
3×3 one-handed20.7825.56
top 22.7%423 / 1,851
Megaminx1:34.921:56.38
top 31.3%353 / 966
5×51:36.431:40.54
top 32.6%424 / 1,151
Square-122.8729.73
top 34.4%305 / 778
6×62:55.693:09.77
top 39.0%236 / 548
7×75:18.765:30.05
top 56.5%274 / 459
3×3 Fewest Moves49 moves51.00
early days — 3 solves300 / 372

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

Stevenage Autumn B 2022: 28.57Stevenage January 2023: 20.33Stevenage November 2023: 18.21Stevenage February 2024: 15.79Stevenage June 2024: 17.56Kewbz UK Open 2024: 16.23Stevenage Beginners September B 2024: 15.83Stevenage October 2024: 13.07Stevenage December 2024: 12.14Stevenage January 2025: 12.56Stevenage March 2025: 12.32Stevenage April 2025: 12.07Coventry Spring 2025: 11.38Stevenage June 2025: 10.61Stevenage July 2025: 10.59Stevenage October 2025: 10.62Stevenage 10th Anniversary 2025: 11.72Stevenage January 2026: 9.61Stevenage July 2026: 8.93Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 9.158.9328.571 Oct 202228 Aug 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.20 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.96 away.

Targets move as he improves.