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Max McGill

Clock · top 0.024% of 32,817 all-time · competing since June 2023 · 2023MCGI02

Max McGill has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 1.87, set at Iowa Championship 2026, puts him in the top 0.024% of the 32,817 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in the United States. Until January 2025, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 31 competitions since June 2023, he has put 1,744 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 70% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.20 in June 2023 to 7.30, a 55% improvement. Max has entered 31 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 0.024% of 32,817 all-time
1.87
signature single · Iowa Championship 2026
1,744
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Clock1.872.66
top 0.024%4 / 9,172
Pyraminx1.352.31
top 0.27%94 / 29,168
2×20.972.29
top 0.5%208 / 41,674
Square-15.6711.79
top 0.6%57 / 6,846
3×37.308.64
top 1.7%1,050 / 60,666
Skewb2.183.79
top 1.9%281 / 19,164
4×432.4837.56
top 4.6%737 / 19,354
3×3 one-handed15.3819.15
top 9.0%1,214 / 15,900
3×3 blindfolded48.92—
top 9.5%189 / 2,128
5×51:11.851:20.06
top 13.0%1,014 / 9,537
Megaminx1:11.141:23.41
top 16.4%1,136 / 8,026
6×62:40.072:46.05
top 30.8%1,103 / 4,262
7×74:14.174:30.35
early days — 3 solves1,019 / 3,236
3×3 Multi-Blind9 of 13 cubes · 59:34—
early days — 1 solve309 / 740

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

CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2023: 16.20Air Capital Cubing Summer 2023: 13.85Big Cube Battle of Waterloo 2024: 12.08Wichita Family ArtVenture 2024: 11.25Chicago Area Twist Spring A 2024: 9.16KCKC 5 Fast and Furious 2024: 9.66KS Air Capital Cubing 2024: 8.95DuPage Fall 2024: 9.63Pyraminx in Pewaukee 2024: 10.95Cornhusker Cubing Classic 2024: 8.58Cubing at Iowa State 2025: 9.20St. Ansgar 2025: 8.72Algs in Ankeny 2025: 10.70Doing Time in Leavenworth 2025: 9.56Land of Lincoln 2025: 9.26Colorado Springs Summer 2025: 10.20CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2025: 8.85Corny Cubers Iowa Classic 2025: 8.39Wisconsin Championship 2025: 8.17KCKC 8 Cubing for Cake 2025: 7.30Quad Cities Saturday 2025: 7.90Iowa Winter Cooldown 2026: 9.07Round Rock Splash & Solve 2026: 8.21St. Ansgar 2026: 8.377x7 Off I-70 MO 2026: 8.93CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2026: 8.34Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 9.16Missouri Championship 2026: 8.37Iowa Championship 2026: 7.89Cubetcha MN 2026: 7.837.3016.202 Jun 202310 Oct 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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.35 away.

Targets move as he improves.