Cubist: Cube Timer & Trainer

Cubist is a beautifully designed speed cube timer, trainer, and learning app where you learn to solve, time your solves to WCA standards, and compete on global speedcubing leaderboards.

Most cube timers just count. Cubist takes you from your very first solve to a spot on the global ranking.

FOUR PUZZLES — ALL FREE

A 3x3 timer, a 2x2 timer, a Pyraminx timer, and a Skewb timer in one app, each with its own scrambles, records, and leaderboards. No puzzle sits behind the paywall, and every one of them has a beginner's path. More official WCA events arrive in free updates, and your records and unlock carry straight over.

LEARN TO SOLVE — FREE

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, 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. Every beginner method is free, forever, on all four puzzles. Faster methods — CFOP, CLL, EG-1, Keyhole, L4E, Sarah's Advanced — are part of Cubist Lifetime.

A WCA-GRADE SPEEDCUBE TIMER

The timer serious speedcubers expect. Real 15-second inspection with +2 and DNF applied at the official boundaries. Centisecond precision down to 0.01. ao5 and ao12 calculated the WCA way, with best and worst solves trimmed exactly as they should be. Random-state scrambles, generated the way official competitions do.

Free accounts get 5 timed solves a day, shared across all four puzzles — enough for a full ao5 every day. Cubist Lifetime times as many solves as you want, every day, on every puzzle.

COMPETE — GLOBAL, REGIONAL, FRIENDS — FREE

Cubist is a speedcubing competition platform, not just a stopwatch. Climb per-puzzle leaderboards filtered by the whole world, your country, your continent, or just your friends. 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 — FREE

Personal bests for single, ao5, ao12, and mean, plus your full solve history — synced to the cloud for free, on any device. Cloud sync is never paywalled — it's what puts you on the leaderboard.

GO FURTHER WITH CUBIST LIFETIME

Ready to break into CFOP and chase sub-X? Unlock Cubist Lifetime with a single one-time purchase — no subscription, no ads, ever.

- Trainer: a CFOP trainer that drills your OLL, PLL, and F2L cases with per-algorithm analytics, so practice goes to the cases that slow you down.

- Unlimited solves: time as many solves as you want, every day, on every puzzle.

- Algorithms: every OLL, PLL, and F2L case in full, with standard notation and in-app cube playback you can step through move by move.

Also included: advanced analytics (trends, distributions, session compare, AO50), save and resume (pick a solve up later, puzzle and clock restored), and every theme. Buy once, own it for good — no recurring charges, no hidden costs.

FEATURES AT A GLANCE

- Four puzzles, all free: 3x3, 2x2, Pyraminx, Skewb

- Free beginner cube tutorials for all four

- WCA-grade speedcube timer: 15s inspection, +2/DNF, random-state scrambles

- 5 free timed solves a day, unlimited with Cubist Lifetime

- Global, country, continent, and friends speedcubing leaderboards

- Server-verified ranked solves and free cloud sync

- CFOP trainer and the full OLL/PLL/F2L algorithm library (Cubist Lifetime)

- Advanced analytics, save and resume, and every theme (Cubist Lifetime)

- One-time purchase, no subscription, no ads

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.