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Maxwell Tsai

7×7 · top 1.4% of 14,450 all-time · competing since February 2024 · 2024TSAI01

Maxwell Tsai has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 7×7: a personal-best single of 2:12.05, set at Vegas Cubing Winter 2026, puts him in the top 1.4% of the 14,450 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 39th in the United States. Until July 2017, no official 7×7 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since February 2024, he has put 421 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 70% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.59 in February 2024 to 7.56, a 21% improvement. Maxwell has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

7×7
best event — top 1.4% of 14,450 all-time
2:12.05
signature single · Vegas Cubing Winter 2026
421
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
7×72:12.052:18.68
top 1.4%39 / 3,236
4×427.6533.35
top 1.6%280 / 19,354
3×37.569.58
top 2.1%1,267 / 60,666
6×61:37.861:41.76
top 3.5%132 / 4,262
5×556.591:00.63
top 4.0%338 / 9,537
2×22.023.68
top 4.9%2,005 / 41,674
Pyraminx4.085.47
top 8.1%2,110 / 29,168
3×3 one-handed15.2720.84
top 8.7%1,186 / 15,900
3×3 Fewest Moves28 moves35.00
top 9.9%231 / 2,059
Megaminx1:04.271:17.36
top 12.3%849 / 8,026
Clock8.5210.17
top 17.5%1,364 / 9,172
Skewb6.777.78
top 31.9%5,376 / 19,164
Square-127.7732.58
top 45.2%2,981 / 6,846

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

Vegas Cubing Cup Winter 2024: 9.59Bobcat Battle Newcomers 2024: 7.83Vegas Cubing Cup Spring 2024: 9.31Vegas Cubing Cup Summer 2024: 8.69Berkeley Fall 2024: 9.79Cubes Canes & Joy Vegas 2024: 9.26Vegas Cubing Cup Spring 2025: 7.56Championnat Canadien 2025: 8.96Vegas Cubing Cup Fall 2025: 7.73Vegas Cubing Winter 2026: 8.77Vegas Cubing Fall 2026: 9.627.569.793 Feb 202426 Sep 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-2:00 7×7 single — 86 people have one; it is 12.05 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 614 people have one; it is 2.65 away.

Targets move as he improves.