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Owen Chester

Megaminx · top 0.51% of 34,786 all-time · competing since April 2016 · 2016CHES01

Owen Chester has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the Megaminx: a personal-best single of 33.59, set at CubingUSA Nationals 2023, puts him in the top 0.51% of the 34,786 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 38th in the United States. Until December 2016, no official Megaminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since April 2016, he has put 1,021 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.38 in April 2016 to 6.12, a 77% improvement. Owen has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Megaminx
best event — top 0.51% of 34,786 all-time
33.59
signature single · CubingUSA Nationals 2023
1,021
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Megaminx33.5935.83
top 0.51%38 / 7,841
3×36.128.27
top 0.56%371 / 59,724
Pyraminx1.863.24
top 0.92%263 / 28,708
4×427.2530.49
top 1.5%252 / 19,072
5×549.1757.10
top 1.5%134 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed10.9913.95
top 1.8%296 / 15,683
6×61:32.211:44.93
top 2.3%88 / 4,196
Clock4.036.07
top 2.4%205 / 8,927
Skewb2.633.39
top 3.4%517 / 18,907
Square-18.5610.81
top 3.8%286 / 6,743
2×21.862.87
top 3.9%1,537 / 40,951
7×72:42.582:53.59
top 6.1%164 / 3,184
3×3 blindfolded1:59.362:19.47
top 33.3%685 / 2,092

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

Virginia Open Spring 2016: 26.38TJHSST Fall 2016: 15.09Virginia Open Winter 2017: 13.57Rally In The Valley 2017: 11.32NovaCube 2018: 9.49Rally In The Valley 2018: 9.25TJHSST Fall 2018: 10.29VES Spring 2019: 7.62Northern Virginia Summer 2019: 7.68Rally in the Valley 2019: 7.67TJHSST Fall 2019: 8.60MLWGS Winter 2020: 8.20Pennsylvania Championship 2022: 7.25Silver Spring Summer 2022: 7.52Virginia Re-Open Spring 2023: 7.39CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 6.23North Carolina Championship 2025: 6.68Virginia Championship 2025: 7.48RVA Spring 2026: 6.126.1226.382 Apr 201631 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-30 Megaminx single — 75 people have one; it is 3.59 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.12 away.

Targets move as he improves.