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Elisha Shaw

3×3 · top 8.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2025 · 2025SHAW02

Elisha Shaw has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.29, set at Stevenage January 2026, puts him in the top 8.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 606th in the United Kingdom. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since January 2025, he has put 84 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% 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 22.32 in January 2025 to 10.29, a 54% improvement. Elisha has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.3% of 284,439 all-time
10.29
signature single · Stevenage January 2026
84
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×310.2913.55
top 8.3%606 / 6,689
2×22.883.98
top 12.9%796 / 4,895
Pyraminx5.919.21
top 19.3%747 / 3,656
Clock9.3114.48
top 21.6%298 / 1,232
Skewb10.3615.13
top 57.2%1,363 / 2,421

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

Stevenage January 2025: 22.32Stevenage March 2025: 17.53Stevenage September 2025: 12.62Stevenage January 2026: 10.2910.2922.3225 Jan 202510 Jan 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.29 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.88 away.

Targets move as he improves.