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Max Shuai

3×3 · top 13.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2025 · 2025SHUA01

Max Shuai has been competing for 11 months. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.00, set at Calgary Fall 2026, puts him in the top 13.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,315th in Canada. Across 4 competitions since October 2025, he has put 73 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.09 in October 2025 to 12.00, a 25% improvement. Max has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 13.9% of 284,439 all-time
12.00
signature single · Calgary Fall 2026
73
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×312.0015.75
top 13.9%1,315 / 10,392
2×23.847.09
top 24.4%1,650 / 7,173
Pyraminx9.3812.19
top 48.0%2,268 / 4,858

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

Richmond Fall 2025: 16.09Crossfield Fall 2025: 15.16Calgary Spring 2026: 12.51Calgary Fall 2026: 12.0012.0016.0911 Oct 202529 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 2.00 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.84 away.

Targets move as he improves.