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Dakotah Shinn

3×3 · top 4.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2022 · 2022SHIN04

Dakotah Shinn has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.94, set at Bozeman Cubing 2024, puts him in the top 4.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,647th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since June 2022, he has put 357 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 84% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.68 in June 2022 to 8.94, a 43% improvement. Dakotah has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.7% of 284,439 all-time
8.94
signature single · Bozeman Cubing 2024
357
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 84% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.9411.90
top 4.7%2,647 / 59,724
2×22.584.42
top 9.7%3,826 / 40,951
Pyraminx6.138.71
top 21.0%5,643 / 28,708
4×449.911:04.98
top 24.6%3,761 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed23.8032.38
top 30.9%4,007 / 15,683
5×51:40.421:52.21
top 35.7%2,836 / 9,401
Skewb7.9013.87
top 40.5%7,005 / 18,907
Megaminx2:16.76
top 54.7%4,099 / 7,841
6×63:56.964:23.45
top 64.4%2,493 / 4,196
Square-143.481:00.48
top 69.4%4,563 / 6,743
7×76:15.63
early days — 3 solves2,193 / 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

Wyoming Summer 2022: 15.68Grizz Cubing 2022: 13.49Billings Speedcubing 2023: 12.06Bozeman Cubing 2023: 11.63Sheridan Stampede 2024: 10.37Bozeman Cubing 2024: 8.94Billings Fall 2024: 11.198.9415.684 Jun 202228 Sep 2024

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.94 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.58 away.

Targets move as he improves.