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Caleb Shapiro

3×3 · top 49.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2012 · 2012SHAP01

Caleb Shapiro has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 23.66, set at Cornell Open Spring 2013, puts him in the top 49.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 28,829th in the United States. Across 8 competitions since May 2012, he has put 103 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 42.69 in May 2012 to 23.66, a 45% improvement. Caleb has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 49.5% of 284,439 all-time
23.66
signature single · Cornell Open Spring 2013
103
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×323.6628.42
top 49.5%28,829 / 59,724
2×26.029.77
top 51.1%20,807 / 40,951
3×3 blindfolded4:07.69
early days — 2 solves1,450 / 2,092
3×3 one-handed45.6856.03
top 72.4%10,446 / 15,683
Pyraminx12.9924.27
top 72.8%21,584 / 28,708
3×3 Fewest Moves48 moves
early days — 1 solve1,529 / 2,040

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

Captain's Cove competition 2012: 42.69St. Joseph's College Summer 2012: 29.97Yale Fall 2012: 29.02Harvard Fall 2012: 27.66Cornell Open Spring 2013: 23.66CCFC Fall 2013: 26.45CCFC BLD Day 2014: 32.58US Nationals 2014: 27.7423.6642.6926 May 20121 Aug 2014

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-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 3.66 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 0.02 away.

Targets move as he improves.