Cubist: Cube Timer & Trainer

Cubist is a beautifully designed cubing app where you learn to solve, time every solve, and compete on a global leaderboard — built to WCA-style standards, for the phone.

Most cube timers just count. Cubist takes you from your very first solve to a spot on the global board, in one app you'll enjoy opening.

FOUR PUZZLES IN ONE APP
3x3, 2x2, Pyraminx, and Skewb, each with its own scrambles, records, and leaderboards — and every one of them has a beginner's path. Your 3x3 records and your Skewb records never mix. More official WCA events arrive in future updates, and your records carry straight over.

LEARN TO SOLVE, STEP BY STEP
New to a puzzle? Step-by-step tutorials walk you through your first solve of each one: Layer-by-Layer for the 3x3 and the 2x2, which builds the cube one layer at a time; Top-Down for the Pyraminx; Sarah's Beginner for the Skewb. The puzzle renders right in the app, highlights the next move, and shows the exact turns — so you learn by doing, not by pausing a blurry video. When you're ready for more, faster methods follow: CFOP (Cross, F2L, OLL, PLL) for the 3x3, CLL and EG-1 for the 2x2, Keyhole and L4E for the Pyraminx, and Sarah's Advanced for the Skewb.

A SPEEDCUBE TIMER BUILT FOR SERIOUS CUBERS
Real 15-second inspection with +2 and DNF applied at the official boundaries: start after 15 seconds of inspection and the solve takes a +2 penalty, go past 17 seconds and it becomes a DNF (did not finish). Centisecond precision down to 0.01. ao5 and ao12 calculated the WCA way, with best and worst solves trimmed exactly as they should be: an ao5 drops your fastest and slowest of five and averages the middle three, and an ao12 does the same across twelve. Random-state scrambles, generated the way official competitions do and served fresh for every solve.

COMPETE — GLOBAL, REGIONAL, FRIENDS
Cubist is a competition platform, not just a stopwatch. Climb per-puzzle leaderboards filtered by the whole world, your country, your continent, or just your friends — switch the filter to see where your 3x3 average sits against cubers near you or everywhere. Every ranked solve is server-verified, so a place on the board actually means something — no fake times, no padded averages. Add friends by username or invite QR and put your averages head to head.

TRACK YOUR PROGRESS
Personal bests for single, ao5, ao12, and mean, plus your full solve history — synced to the cloud so they follow you to any device.

GO FURTHER
Ready to break into CFOP and chase a new PB?
- Trainer: drills your OLL, PLL, and F2L cases with per-algorithm analytics, so practice time goes to the cases that slow you down.
- Algorithms: every OLL, PLL, and F2L case in full, with standard notation and in-app playback you can step through move by move.
- Advanced analytics: trends, distributions, session compare, and AO50.
- Save and resume: pick a solve up later, puzzle and clock restored.
- Every accent theme and cube skin.

FEATURES AT A GLANCE
- Four puzzles: 3x3, 2x2, Pyraminx, Skewb
- Step-by-step beginner tutorials for all four
- Speedcube timer: 15s inspection, +2/DNF, random-state scrambles
- Personal bests, ao5, ao12, and full solve history
- Global, country, continent, and friends leaderboards
- Server-verified ranked solves and cloud sync
- CFOP trainer and the full OLL/PLL/F2L algorithm library
- Advanced analytics, save and resume, and every theme

WHO IT'S FOR
Whether you just solved your first puzzle or you're grinding toward CFOP and a new personal best, Cubist meets you where you are.

Note: Cubist Records are tracked within the app and are separate from official WCA records.

Download Cubist, start your first timed solve, and find your place on the global board.

Recent changes:
Every layer answers now. Nothing left out of reach.