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Max Chan

3×3 · top 0.49% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2015 · 2015CHAN37

Max Chan has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.01, set at PBs in Palisades Open 2025, puts him in the top 0.49% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 324th in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 71 competitions since November 2015, he has put 2,641 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 39.93 in November 2015 to 6.01, an 85% improvement. Max has entered 71 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.49% of 284,439 all-time
6.01
signature single · PBs in Palisades Open 2025
2,641
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.017.78
top 0.49%324 / 59,724
Pyraminx1.613.33
top 0.56%173 / 28,708
4×426.3331.15
top 1.1%189 / 19,072
5×550.9857.03
top 2.0%161 / 9,401
2×21.492.24
top 2.1%841 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed12.7615.08
top 4.0%589 / 15,683
Square-19.0212.86
top 4.5%335 / 6,743
6×61:44.681:48.50
top 5.4%184 / 4,196
Skewb3.324.50
top 6.7%1,031 / 18,907
Megaminx58.841:03.26
top 9.4%649 / 7,841
Clock7.188.04
top 11.7%888 / 8,927
7×73:11.023:17.75
top 13.7%378 / 3,184
3×3 Fewest Moves34 moves50.33
top 26.7%586 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded8:37.64—
early days — 2 solves2,021 / 2,092

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

Manhasset Fall 2015: 39.93Liberty Science 2015: 33.67Red Cross Cubing Open 2016: 26.87Big Apple Cube Clash 2016: 29.44Manhasset Spring 2016: 18.97New York City Summer 2016: 17.38Princeton Fall 2016: 17.16Red Cross Cubing Open 2017: 13.04Big Cube Bash 2017: 14.47Lexington Summer 2017: 14.33Princeton Fall 2017: 13.43UPenn Cube Day Fall 2017: 11.66Liberty Science Center Open 2017: 11.85New York City Winter 2018: 10.11Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 10.67Rutgers Spring 2018: 12.12New York City Spring 2018: 10.23Lower Moreland Spring 2018: 10.53North Plainfield Open 2018: 11.13CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 10.23New Hope Open Spring 2018: 10.46Princeton Fall 2018: 9.40Fall Foliage Cubing 2018: 9.64CubingUSA New Jersey Championship 2018: 9.25Liberty Science Center Open 2018: 10.50Lower Moreland Winter 2019: 9.03Ridge Cubing 2019: 9.45Penn Cube Day Spring 2019: 9.35George School Open 2019: 8.58CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 8.56Ridge Cubing Fall 2019: 9.03Liberty Science Center Open 2019: 8.54Princeton Winter 2020: 7.76Skewbadelphia Winter 2020: 9.55Saint John's Spring 2022: 6.90Princeton Spring 2022: 7.86CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 7.46Pennsylvania Championship 2022: 7.13Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 8.38East Brunswick Open 2022: 6.89St. Joseph's Prep 2022: 7.73Pretzel Mania 2022: 7.76Princeton Fall 2022: 6.73West Chester Fall 2022: 7.39Penn Cube Day Spring 2023: 7.92NJIT Spring 2023: 7.52CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 8.33Princeton Fall 2023: 7.15GCU Winter 2024: 6.94PBs in Palisades 2024: 7.18Penn Cube Day Spring 2024: 6.79Spring into Summit 2024: 7.20New Jersey Championship 2024: 7.05Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 7.02Penn Cube Day Fall 2024: 7.43Pop Off Princeton 2025: 6.95PBs in Palisades Open 2025: 6.01Rutgers Winter 2025: 7.31PBs in Palisades Winter 2025: 7.14Liberty Science Center Open A 2025: 7.67Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.37Bucks County Cubing AM 2025: 8.28Fort Lee Winter 2026: 6.26Lodi Solves Spring 2026: 7.676.0139.9321 Nov 20157 Mar 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.

  • Shaun Mack — met in 337 rounds, finished ahead 32 times
  • Livia Kleiner — met in 302 rounds, finished ahead 33 times
  • Dana Yi — met in 297 rounds, finished ahead 74 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.01 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.61 away.

Targets move as he improves.