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Cady Shields

Pyraminx · top 6.8% of 129,321 all-time · competing since November 2014 · 2014SHIE03

Cady Shields has been competing for 12 years. Their best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 3.82, set at CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2022, puts them in the top 6.8% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,736th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 98 competitions since November 2014, they have put 2,069 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, their 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 71% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Their 3×3 best has come down from 16.00 in November 2014 to 10.76, a 33% improvement. Cady has entered 98 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 6.8% of 129,321 all-time
3.82
signature single · CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2022
2,069
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 71% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Pyraminx3.8212.18
top 6.8%1,736 / 28,708
3×310.7613.68
top 9.7%5,295 / 59,724
2×23.275.26
top 17.4%6,822 / 40,951
Clock10.4112.30
top 27.1%2,083 / 8,927
Skewb7.8715.63
top 40.3%6,952 / 18,907
4×41:18.021:31.01
top 54.3%9,244 / 19,072
3×3 Fewest Moves46 moves52.00
top 68.6%1,424 / 2,040
5×52:38.553:02.77
top 69.8%6,126 / 9,401
7×76:39.669:25.44
top 76.4%2,379 / 3,184
3×3 one-handed53.191:01.53
top 79.5%11,731 / 15,683
Megaminx3:29.384:05.21
top 83.5%6,656 / 7,841
6×65:37.775:45.39
top 87.9%3,618 / 4,196

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

Charlotte Open Fall 2014: 16.00Discovery Place 2016: 16.93Crossroads Cubing 2017: 17.70Unionville Open Spring 2017: 13.13Crossroads Cubing Spring 2017: 17.82Hendersonville Fall 2017: 17.43Raleigh Rubik's Rally 2017: 17.92Wolfpack Winter 2018: 13.91Fruit Salad 2018: 16.17CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2018: 15.23Wolfpack Quiet Qualifier 2018: 15.15Carolina Cubers United 2018: 15.07Crossroads Cubing 2018: 14.33GA Cubers Summer Blast 2018: 12.71CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 13.39Carolina Season Starter 2018: 18.70Cobb Cubes Again 2018: 12.07Tar Heel Tango 2018: 14.72Carolina Clock 'Stravaganza 2018: 15.19CubingUSA Georgia Championship 2018: 18.67Hendersonville Winter 2019: 16.83CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 18.14Wolfpack Winter 2019: 14.20CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2019: 14.97Peach State 2019: 15.68Cape Fear Cubing 2019: 15.61Georgia Goobers 2019: 14.25Greensboro Summer 2019: 15.76CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 12.59Scuppernong Spectacular 2019: 13.58Rocky The Ram Cubes 2019: 14.65GA Cubers Sunset 2019: 14.50Gobbler Cube Day Fall 2019: 15.61Carolina Clock 'Stravaganza 2019: 14.43Rocky Top 2019: 13.91GA Cubers Feet Fest 2019: 15.37Florida Winter Break 2019: 13.79Charlotte Winter 2020: 13.14Big Cubes for Dunwoody 2020: 13.59GA Cubers Return B 2021: 15.39Cobb Cubes Comeback 2A 2021: 13.50Florida Fall 2021: 17.25Cape Fear 2022: 13.45Edneyville Spring 2022: 12.57GA Cubers Pride 2022: 15.13CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2022: 15.01Carolina Clock 'Stravaganza 2022: 12.33Rocky Top 2022: 15.22Niner Nation Open 2023: 14.20Wolfpack Winter 2023: 15.90Cubing in the Clouds 2023: 15.56CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2023: 13.49ODU Big Blue Spring 2023: 13.25AlphaCubing B 2023: 15.43Concord Summer 2023: 15.06Pickett's Mill Battlefield 2023: 13.25CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 14.82Staunton Speedsolving 2023: 13.75Clarks Hill Cubing 2023: 10.76Cubing Knights IV 2023: 12.70North Carolina Championship 2023: 11.55Rocky Top 2023: 15.99Upstate Palmetto Puzzles 2024: 12.79See Georgia: Lake Russell A 2024: 13.82Concord Summer 2024: 13.58CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2024: 12.68Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 13.41GA Cuber Jackets Fall 2024: 16.42NCSU Wolfpack 2024: 14.64Charlotte Winter 2025: 13.45Queen City NC 2025: 13.54GA Cuber Jackets Spring 2025: 14.08Cubing in School Westminster 2025: 13.22North Carolina Championship 2025: 15.02CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2025: 15.98Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 16.22Clemson Cube Catastrophe 2025: 12.96Concord Summer 2025: 14.60NCSU Wolfpack 2025: 12.98Georgia Championship 2026: 15.67NxN Nonsense NC 2026: 14.90NCSU Wolfpack Spring 2026: 14.49CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2026: 11.31Warm Up Carolina Pride 2026: 13.28Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 12.1410.7618.7022 Nov 20142 Jul 2026

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 their.

Next targets

  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.82 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.76 away.

Targets move as they improves.