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Max William Colwell

Skewb · top 0.47% of 73,281 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024COLW01

Max William Colwell has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 1.52, set at Temple Cubing Fall 2025, puts him in the top 0.47% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 79th in the United States. Until October 2015, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since March 2024, he has put 615 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.16 in March 2024 to 6.16, a 56% improvement. Max has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 0.47% of 73,281 all-time
1.52
signature single · Temple Cubing Fall 2025
615
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Skewb1.522.92
top 0.47%79 / 18,907
3×36.168.27
top 0.59%393 / 59,724
2×22.072.85
top 5.2%2,080 / 40,951
Pyraminx3.947.86
top 7.4%1,885 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed19.3023.56
top 18.6%2,396 / 15,683
Megaminx1:15.381:35.46
top 18.9%1,287 / 7,841
4×447.6854.52
top 21.7%3,292 / 19,072
Square-120.3537.78
top 28.7%1,876 / 6,743
5×52:18.622:27.78
top 60.3%5,172 / 9,401
Clock23.7926.79
top 74.3%6,468 / 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

Cube Against Cancer Texas 2024: 14.16Turning at Tompkins Spring 2024: 13.08Humble Cube Rumble Summer 2024: 10.67Brazos Cubing Fall 2024: 10.94Space City Winter TX 2025: 9.68Cube Against Cancer Houston 2025: 9.58The Heart of Texas Fall 2025: 7.63Space City Fall TX 2025: 8.12Temple Cubing Fall 2025: 7.58Texas Championship 2025: 7.40Temple Cubing Winter 2026: 8.70Round Rock Splash & Solve 2026: 6.16Cube Against Cancer Houston 2026: 7.40GAN Southern Championship 2026: 7.55Hillister Cube Hustle 2026: 7.136.1614.162 Mar 202418 Jul 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 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.52 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.16 away.

Targets move as he improves.