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Michael Muething

Megaminx · top 0.16% of 34,786 all-time · competing since April 2019 · 2019MUET01

Michael Muething has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the Megaminx: a personal-best single of 29.09, set at UCLA Spring 2026, puts him in the top 0.16% of the 34,786 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 11th in the United States. Until July 2018, no official Megaminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 44 competitions since April 2019, he has put 2,240 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.82 in April 2019 to 6.36, a 68% improvement. Michael has entered 44 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Megaminx
best event — top 0.16% of 34,786 all-time
29.09
signature single · UCLA Spring 2026
2,240
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Megaminx29.0934.94
top 0.16%11 / 7,841
7×71:59.772:10.21
top 0.56%20 / 3,184
3×36.367.17
top 0.73%477 / 59,724
4×426.5530.31
top 1.2%206 / 19,072
5×547.8454.26
top 1.2%109 / 9,401
Pyraminx2.103.43
top 1.3%360 / 28,708
6×61:26.591:30.73
top 1.4%51 / 4,196
2×21.482.91
top 2.1%825 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed12.2916.19
top 3.4%512 / 15,683
Skewb2.943.94
top 4.7%734 / 18,907
Square-19.5813.18
top 5.4%394 / 6,743
Clock7.127.85
top 11.4%873 / 8,927
3×3 blindfolded1:26.662:16.21
top 21.9%445 / 2,092
3×3 Fewest Moves52 moves
early days — 2 solves1,683 / 2,040
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 3 cubes · 29:57
early days — 1 solve666 / 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

Atomic Cubing Spring 2019: 19.82Puget Sound Spring 2019: 16.36Yakima Valley Cubing Spring 2019: 11.20BeCubed Summer 2019: 10.67Indiana 2019: 10.80Puget Sound Fall 2019: 10.24Yakima Side Events 2019: 10.30AZCubing Winter 2019: 8.72UCSD Winter 2020: 9.19Washington Championship 2020: 9.95Central Washington Winter 2020: 8.47Welcome Back Wisconsin 2 2021: 8.05Three Attempts Chicago 2022: 7.66Irvine Summer 2022: 7.65Marshall Cubing September 2022: 7.00WCC Western Championship 2022: 6.52Cubing for Cancer RPV 2022: 7.78Chula Vista Winter 2023: 7.67Welcome to Olympia 2023: 7.30Lakewood Spring 2023: 6.54SnoCo Has Too Much 3x3 2023: 7.05Kent Summer 2023: 6.36Tacoma Winter Twisters 2024: 7.52Vegas Cubing Cup Spring 2024: 7.17CubingUSA Western Championship 2024: 7.02La La Land 2024: 7.24Super Duper San Diego 2024: 6.67Vegas Cubing Cup Fall 2024: 7.40UCSD Fall 2024: 7.12Westview Cubing Favorites 2025: 6.45Warm Up Seattle 2025: 6.57Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.70UCLA Summer 2025: 7.32Huntington Park Winter 2025: 7.24Temecula Valley Winter 2025: 7.10Super Duper San Diego 2026: 6.42UCLA Spring 2026: 6.77Temecula Valley Spring 2026: 7.16Poly Cubed at Pomona 2026: 7.71West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2026: 6.826.3619.826 Apr 201923 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-25 Megaminx single — 8 people have one; it is 4.09 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.36 away.

Targets move as he improves.