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Ariel Shusteff

3×3 · top 21.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2023 · 2023SHUS01

Ariel Shusteff has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.05, set at Berkeley Winter 2024, puts him in the top 21.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 11,392nd in the United States. Across 3 competitions since October 2023, he has put 54 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 9% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. Ariel has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 21.1% of 284,439 all-time
14.05
signature single · Berkeley Winter 2024
54
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×314.0515.16
top 21.1%11,392 / 59,724
Pyraminx7.2510.72
top 29.9%8,297 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed29.7833.42
top 46.1%6,271 / 15,683
Skewb8.7011.07
top 46.4%8,205 / 18,907
5×52:45.05
early days — 2 solves6,431 / 9,401

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

Davis Fall 2023: 14.15Berkeley Winter 2024: 14.05Cool Down Berkeley 2024: 15.9514.0515.9529 Oct 20233 Nov 2024

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

  • 29 Oct 2023First competition: Davis Fall 2023. A 14.38 3×3 single to start from.

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.05 away.
  • A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 1.25 away.

Targets move as he improves.