Graham Siggins reclaims 3x3 multi-blind world record with 63/65

Graham Siggins reclaimed the 3x3x3 multi-blind world record with 63/65 in 58:23, a result that matters because it was the first time the event crossed the 60-point barrier. In a discipline built on memory, precision, and nerve, that score was not just another record line, it was a statement about how far elite blindfolded solving has moved.

The World Cube Association records 3x3x3 multi-blind in solved-attempted format with a final time, and the ranking is based on solved minus not solved. That is why Siggins’ 63/65 beat Rowe Hessler’s earlier 63/66 mark even though both solves sat in the same rarefied range. Siggins left only two cubes unsolved; Hessler’s record had three misses. In a format where solvers have up to one hour, a single cube can decide the result.

That narrow gap gives the record its bite. Multi-blind is one of the oldest and most specialized branches of competitive cubing, but the ceiling at the very top is still moving. Siggins’ official World Cube Association profile lists 143 competitions and 4,478 solves, while Hessler’s profile shows 193 competitions and 6,383 solves, underscoring how much mileage both men have put into a discipline that rewards long-term recall as much as raw execution. Hessler also kept the chase alive by posting 60/67 in 59:44 at New York Multimate PBQ 2025, a reminder that the event’s top tier is still crowded with scores that would have looked impossible a generation ago.

The record also carries the feel of a rivalry rather than a one-off stunt. Hessler congratulated Siggins, but the message was clear: the hunt is not over. Other names, including Krzysztof Bober, Ezra Hirschi, Simon Praschi, Andrew Tao, Stanley Chapel, Jason Ostdiek, and Aria Querubin, remain part of a field that can still push the standard higher. The World Cube Association competition page for Please Be Quiet Reno 2025 highlighted Siggins’ world record, placing the 63/65 into the official record stream rather than treating it as a side note.

For multi-blind, the headline is not simply that Graham Siggins got the record back. It is that 63/65 finally shoved the event beyond a symbolic line, and the next chase now starts from a place that once looked unreachable.