People · United States
Max Simmons
Pyraminx · top 3.0% of 129,321 all-time · competing since September 2023 · 2023SIMM06
Max Simmons has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.81, set at Worlds Warmup Hillsboro 2025, puts him in the top 3.0% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 810th in the United States. Until October 2010, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since September 2023, he has put 136 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His Pyraminx best has come down from 8.18 in September 2023 to 2.81, a 66% improvement. Max has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 2.81 | 7.18 | top 3.0% | 810 / 28,708 | |
| 3×3 | 22.45 | 28.50 | top 46.6% | 26,946 / 59,724 | |
| Clock | 18.15 | 22.31 | top 59.2% | 4,965 / 8,927 |
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
Best single per competition, Pyraminx. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 26 Apr 2025First sub-30 3×3: 26.69 at Worlds Warmup Hillsboro 2025.
- 26 Apr 2025Three personal bests in one day at Worlds Warmup Hillsboro 2025.
- 1 Sep 2023First competition: Oregon Championship 2023.
Competitions
- Oregon Championship 2025 · 5 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Battle Ground 2025 · 23 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Corvallis 2025 · 4 May 2025
- Worlds Warmup Hillsboro 2025 · 26 Apr 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Hillsboro Winter 2025 · 11 Jan 2025
- McMinnville Cubing Fall 2024 · 21 Sep 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Oregon Championship 2024 · 13 Sep 2024
- Hillsboro Favorites 2024 · 15 Jun 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Couve Cubing Spring 2024 · 9 Mar 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Eugene Ice Cubing 2024 · 24 Feb 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Salem Spooktacular 2023 · 28 Oct 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Oregon Championship 2023 · 1 Sep 2023
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.
- Benjamin Gottschalk — met in 27 rounds, never finished ahead
- Tripp Peters — met in 27 rounds, never finished ahead
- Tyler L. Nguyen — met in 23 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
Next targets
- A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.81 away.
- A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 2.45 away.
Targets move as he improves.