Sunday 6 September 2026 Rebuilt nightly from the WCA's official results · export of 6 September 2026 · About
The Middle Three
People → United States → Aditya Shah

People · United States

Aditya Shah

2×2 · top 9.5% of 186,767 all-time · competing since November 2014 · 2014SHAH22

Aditya Shah has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.56, set at Hayward Rubik's Rumble 2016, puts him in the top 9.5% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,749th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since November 2014, he has put 136 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 52.02 in November 2014 to 11.39, a 78% improvement. Aditya has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 9.5% of 186,767 all-time
2.56
signature single · Hayward Rubik's Rumble 2016
136
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×22.563.98
top 9.5%3,749 / 40,951
3×311.3912.21
top 11.8%6,324 / 59,724
4×41:32.34
early days — 1 solve11,530 / 19,072
Pyraminx15.1718.55
top 82.4%24,346 / 28,708

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

BASC 4: Día de los Cubos 2014: 52.02Berkeley Fall 2014: 41.15Berkeley Winter 2015: 22.66BASC 5: Everything But 2x2 2015: 25.09Berkeley Spring 2015: 18.77SPCS Stanford Spring 2015: 15.81BASC 6 2015: 15.95Hayward Rubik's Rumble 2015: 12.86Berkeley Fall 2015: 14.27Berkeley Summer 2016: 13.13Hayward Rubik's Rumble 2016: 12.50World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 11.65Bay Area Speedcubin' 17 2019: 11.3911.3952.022 Nov 20141 Jun 2019

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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.56 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.39 away.

Targets move as he improves.