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Max Lessel

3×3 · top 2.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2023 · 2023LESS02

Max Lessel has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.06, set at Arkansas Championship 2026, puts him in the top 2.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,654th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since August 2023, he has put 535 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.90 in August 2023 to 8.06, a 32% improvement. Max has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.9% of 284,439 all-time
8.06
signature single · Arkansas Championship 2026
535
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.069.70
top 2.9%1,654 / 59,724
2×22.083.85
top 5.3%2,105 / 40,951
Skewb4.007.59
top 10.9%1,680 / 18,907
Pyraminx4.647.28
top 11.0%2,872 / 28,708
3×3 blindfolded56.872:00.68
top 12.0%231 / 2,092
4×442.2047.69
top 14.7%2,206 / 19,072
3×3 Fewest Moves30 moves38.67
early days — 3 solves327 / 2,040
Clock9.9813.70
top 25.0%1,917 / 8,927
3×3 one-handed23.0125.79
top 28.8%3,721 / 15,683
Megaminx1:35.641:50.26
top 31.8%2,252 / 7,841
5×51:37.101:52.79
top 33.1%2,627 / 9,401
Square-125.7834.14
top 40.9%2,652 / 6,743
6×63:49.453:54.59
top 62.1%2,396 / 4,196
7×76:19.58—
early days — 2 solves2,231 / 3,184

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

Pretzel Mania Dallas 2023: 11.90DFW Cubing Summer 2024: 9.76Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 12.19Arkansas Championship 2025: 9.00Cubing in Cave Springs Arkansas 2025: 9.29Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.93Omnicon & Cubes TN 2025: 8.45Arkansolve Fall 2025: 9.25Vanderbilt Winter 2026: 8.53Arkansas Championship 2026: 8.06Fort Payne Summer 2026: 8.518.0612.1926 Aug 202322 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.06 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.08 away.

Targets move as he improves.