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Brendan Sheppard
Pyraminx · top 9.8% of 130,891 all-time · competing since November 2024 · 2024SHEP08
Brendan Sheppard has been competing for a year. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 4.42, set at Portland in a Pyra Tree 2025, puts him in the top 9.8% of the 130,891 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,589th in the United States. Until September 2006, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since November 2024, he has put 82 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.90 in November 2024 to 22.59, a 19% improvement. Brendan has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 4.42 | 8.90 | top 9.8% | 2,589 / 29,168 | |
| 3×3 | 22.59 | 25.51 | top 47.0% | 27,627 / 60,666 | |
| Clock | 17.03 | 20.43 | top 55.6% | 4,748 / 9,172 | |
| Skewb | 10.55 | 14.82 | top 58.4% | 10,830 / 19,164 | |
| 2×2 | 8.70 | 10.07 | top 71.9% | 30,197 / 41,674 | |
| Square-1 | 46.65 | — | top 72.9% | 4,858 / 6,846 | |
| Megaminx | 2:57.08 | — | top 73.2% | 5,827 / 8,026 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 23 Nov 2024First competition: Couve Cubing Fall 2024. A 28.77 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Portland in a Pyra Tree 2025 · 20 Dec 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Worlds Warmup Hillsboro 2025 · 26 Apr 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Couve Cubing Fall 2024 · 23 Nov 2024 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Clancy Caster — met in 19 rounds, finished ahead once
- Benjamin Gottschalk — met in 19 rounds, never finished ahead
- Tyler L. Nguyen — met in 19 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 10,050 people have one; it is 0.42 away.
- A sub-20 3×3 single — 115,495 people have one; it is 2.59 away.
Targets move as he improves.