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Maxwell Beavers

3×3 · top 1.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2025 · 2025BEAV01

Maxwell Beavers has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.34, set at ROC the Cube NY 2026, puts him in the top 1.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,055th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since March 2025, he has put 318 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.74 in March 2025 to 7.34, a 42% improvement. Maxwell has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.8% of 284,439 all-time
7.34
signature single · ROC the Cube NY 2026
318
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.348.53
top 1.8%1,055 / 59,724
2×21.803.40
top 3.6%1,413 / 40,951
5×51:13.841:19.59
top 14.4%1,110 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed19.0222.71
top 17.9%2,302 / 15,683
4×444.7549.54
top 18.0%2,745 / 19,072
Clock8.7212.43
top 18.6%1,420 / 8,927
6×62:32.482:41.46
top 26.8%943 / 4,196
Pyraminx7.5511.26
top 32.5%9,104 / 28,708
7×74:23.054:29.83
early days — 3 solves1,081 / 3,184
Square-11:00.10
early days — 1 solve5,612 / 6,743
Skewb19.2828.83
top 88.5%17,032 / 18,907

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

Cubing in the 'Cuse 2025: 12.74One-Handed Open NY 2025: 12.43Gouverneur Summer 2025: 8.95New York Championship 2025: 8.52Two York Time Twist 2025: 9.03Turning in Corning 2025: 8.16RIT Tiger Twist 2026: 8.08Seneca Lake 2026: 7.86ROC the Cube NY 2026: 7.347.3412.7429 Mar 202530 May 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.34 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.80 away.

Targets move as he improves.