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Max Walaszek

3×3 · top 0.38% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2018 · 2018WALA01

Max Walaszek has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.82, set at Cubing in Oak Creek 2024, puts him in the top 0.38% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 260th in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 60 competitions since June 2018, he has put 2,847 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.80 in June 2018 to 5.82, a 77% improvement. Max has entered 60 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.38% of 284,439 all-time
5.82
signature single · Cubing in Oak Creek 2024
2,847
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.827.45
top 0.38%260 / 59,724
2×20.971.53
top 0.5%205 / 40,951
4×424.2527.71
top 0.54%95 / 19,072
7×72:01.342:05.45
top 0.67%21 / 3,184
5×545.4949.79
top 0.74%63 / 9,401
Pyraminx1.923.41
top 1.0%284 / 28,708
6×61:24.531:28.31
top 1.1%43 / 4,196
Square-16.7911.30
top 1.5%118 / 6,743
3×3 one-handed10.9213.82
top 1.8%285 / 15,683
Skewb2.183.45
top 1.9%273 / 18,907
Megaminx41.9748.42
top 2.1%153 / 7,841
Clock4.915.61
top 4.2%340 / 8,927
3×3 Fewest Moves27 moves34.00
top 8.0%187 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded1:19.093:41.28
top 19.3%384 / 2,092
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 3 cubes · 28:08—
early days — 1 solve661 / 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

Coach Pigeon 2018: 25.80Madison Blind N Stuff 2018: 20.99Flag City Fall 2018: 19.19Wiscube 2018: 14.20West Branch 2019: 13.65Albany Winter 2019: 12.73CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2019: 11.67Chicago Area Twist Spring 2019: 10.69CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 11.94Mishawaka Summer 2019: 9.31North Liberty 2019: 8.83Albany Fall 2019: 8.87Cubing Peoria 2020: 9.04Michigan Cubing Club Alpha 2020: 9.26Michigan Cubing Club Alpha 2022: 8.26NxNaperville 2022: 7.87Milwaukee First 2022: 7.82Cubing Peoria 2022: 7.63Mt. Prospect Open 2022: 7.19UIUC Fall 2022: 7.672x2 in a Madison Lodge 2022: 7.50Naperville Winter B 2022: 7.66Everything in Evanston A 2023: 8.09Swallow Spring 2023: 7.36OH in a Madison Ballroom 2023: 7.07CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 7.54Evanston Summer Big Cubes 2023: 7.65Get to Work Chicagoland 2023: 7.00Fort Wayne Favorites 2023: 6.55Evanston Fall Mini C 2023: 7.00Chicago Area Twist Spring A 2024: 6.58Ackerman Spring 2024: 7.51Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 7.13Cubing in Oak Creek 2024: 5.826x6 Still in a Madison Park 2024: 7.10Kenosha First B 2024: 6.58Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.99WisconsiNxN 2025: 7.00CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2025: 6.66Cubing in Terredise 2025: 7.17Evanston Fall Favorites A 2025: 7.17CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2026: 7.34Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 7.784x4 Off US-40 IL 2026: 6.285.8225.8023 Jun 201829 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.82 away.
  • A sub-20 4×4 single — 42 people have one; it is 4.25 away.

Targets move as he improves.