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Cole Shaft

Clock · top 0.71% of 32,048 all-time · competing since May 2023 · 2023SHAF03

Cole Shaft has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 2.97, set at Plymouth Puzzle-Off 2025, puts him in the top 0.71% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 68th in the United States. Until May 2021, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 39 competitions since May 2023, he has put 1,393 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 52% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.97 in May 2023 to 7.00, a 65% improvement. Cole has entered 39 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 0.71% of 32,048 all-time
2.97
signature single · Plymouth Puzzle-Off 2025
1,393
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Clock2.974.01
top 0.71%68 / 8,927
3×37.009.48
top 1.3%812 / 59,724
Pyraminx2.113.43
top 1.3%364 / 28,708
2×21.523.05
top 2.2%888 / 40,951
4×431.0535.38
top 3.5%559 / 19,072
Square-18.3712.00
top 3.5%263 / 6,743
Skewb2.864.29
top 4.3%665 / 18,907
5×51:02.521:10.96
top 6.9%555 / 9,401
Megaminx56.431:07.60
top 8.1%568 / 7,841
3×3 one-handed15.4618.07
top 9.1%1,209 / 15,683
6×62:02.032:12.95
top 11.8%420 / 4,196
3×3 blindfolded1:09.14—
top 15.9%306 / 2,092
7×73:42.013:51.94
top 24.2%686 / 3,184

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

Michigan Mini 5 2023: 19.97Washtenaw Slow Summer 2023: 14.38Michigan Mini 7 2023: 15.85Washtenaw Fast 'n Late Fall 2023: 14.64Michigan Mini 8 2023: 10.85Michigan Mini 9 2023: 13.02Washtenaw Autumn 2023: 12.58Washtenaw Winter 2024: 12.66Michigan Mini 15 2024: 11.53Washtenaw Newcomers 2024: 11.29Washtenaw Spring 2024: 10.40Michigan Mini 18 2024: 12.15Washtenaw Qualifiers 2024: 11.14Michigan Championship 2024: 10.19Michigan Mini 21 2024: 10.32Washtenaw Summer 2024: 9.05Washtenaw Fall 2024: 8.12Washtenaw Mini 2 2024: 10.88Michigan Mini 25 2024: 9.63Washtenaw Mini 3 2024: 9.16Washtenaw Winter 2025: 8.75Michigan Mini 28 2025: 10.00Michigan Mini 29 2025: 9.30Michigan Mini 30 2025: 9.00Washtenaw Spring 2025: 9.80Michigan Mini 31 2025: 8.21Plymouth Puzzle-Off 2025: 9.31Michigan Championship 2025: 9.63Michigan Mini 34 2025: 8.86Michigan Mini 37 2025: 7.67Michigan Mini 38 2025: 9.08Michigan Medium 2025: 8.26CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2026: 8.42Michigan Mini 42 2026: 8.11Michigan Mini 43 2026: 8.10Michigan Mini 44 2026: 7.007.0019.9719 May 202327 Aug 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-2 Clock single — 17 people have one; it is 0.97 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.00 away.

Targets move as he improves.