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Max Fairbanks

3×3 · top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2018 · 2018FAIR01

Max Fairbanks has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.98, set at Utah Ice Cubing 2025, puts him in the top 1.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 803rd in the United States. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 34 competitions since January 2018, he has put 1,078 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 80% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.44 in January 2018 to 6.98, a 69% improvement. Max has entered 34 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time
6.98
signature single · Utah Ice Cubing 2025
1,078
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 80% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.989.46
top 1.3%803 / 59,724
2×22.022.96
top 4.9%1,961 / 40,951
4×434.8044.03
top 6.5%1,010 / 19,072
Square-110.8115.49
top 7.6%551 / 6,743
Pyraminx4.336.88
top 9.3%2,418 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed15.9520.35
top 10.1%1,339 / 15,683
Clock7.138.46
top 11.4%877 / 8,927
Skewb4.436.40
top 13.9%2,171 / 18,907
3×3 Fewest Moves30 moves43.33
top 14.8%327 / 2,040
5×51:16.111:28.79
top 16.2%1,255 / 9,401
3×3 blindfolded1:18.812:21.59
top 19.1%375 / 2,092
Megaminx1:20.441:38.70
top 22.1%1,521 / 7,841
6×62:48.192:54.55
top 35.2%1,263 / 4,196
7×74:31.954:50.64
top 41.7%1,192 / 3,184
3×3 Multi-Blind4 of 6 cubes · 41:33—
early days — 3 solves587 / 731

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

Utah Winter Open 2018: 22.44Utah Spring Open 2018: 19.79Utah Big Blind-off 2018: 17.78Colorado Qualifier 2018: 15.20CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 13.54Southern Utah Fall Open 2018: 12.10Utah Snowball Bash 2018: 13.56Utah Valley Open 2019: 13.14Utah's California Gull Extravaganza 2019: 13.75Utah Fall 2021: 12.35Utah Puzzling for Awareness 2022: 12.95Utah's California Gull Extravaganza 2022: 14.07Utah Championship 2022: 10.22Utah Ice Cubing 2023: 11.14Utah Megacomp 2023: 9.96Utah Puzzling For Awareness XL 2023: 11.32Salt Lake Utah Summer 2023: 10.26Southern Utah Summer 2023: 11.26Utah Summer Side Events A 2023: 9.03Back to School Utah 2023: 9.00Utah Valley Open 2023: 8.07CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2023: 8.49Utah Snowball Bash 2023: 9.19Utah Newcomers 2024: 8.22Utah Puzzling for Awareness 2024: 8.80CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2024: 9.28Back to School Utah 2024: 8.96Utah Cubing with Culture 2024: 9.29Utah Ice Cubing 2025: 6.98Utah Newcomers 2025: 9.706.9822.4427 Jan 201822 Mar 2025

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.

  • Isaac Myers — met in 215 rounds, finished ahead 70 times
  • Damian Wilding — met in 203 rounds, finished ahead 110 times
  • Eric Pesci — met in 188 rounds, finished ahead 23 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.98 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.02 away.

Targets move as he improves.