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Everest Shi

3×3 · top 6.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2008 · 2008SHIE01

Everest Shi has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.71, set at Berkeley Mind Sports 2014, puts him in the top 6.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 634th in Canada. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since June 2008, he has put 678 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.86 in June 2008 to 9.71, a 53% improvement. Everest has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.7% of 284,439 all-time
9.71
signature single · Berkeley Mind Sports 2014
678
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×39.7112.88
top 6.7%634 / 10,392
2×22.333.79
top 7.3%474 / 7,173
3×3 one-handed18.0221.74
top 15.1%319 / 2,620
4×448.8154.57
top 23.2%592 / 3,118
5×51:38.021:47.79
top 33.9%420 / 1,499
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves
early days — 3 solves119 / 283
Pyraminx9.3815.38
top 48.0%2,268 / 4,858
6×63:29.653:36.24
top 54.5%295 / 665
7×75:58.556:22.85
top 67.3%299 / 503
Megaminx3:24.83
early days — 2 solves1,044 / 1,375

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

Vancouver Open Summer 2008: 20.86Vancouver Open 2009: 17.06Big Cubes BC 2011: 13.55Vancouver Winter 2011: 14.08Berkeley Fall 2012: 14.08Stanford Fall 2012: 13.27Berkeley Autumn 2012: 13.21Berkeley Winter 2013: 12.40Berkeley Spring 2013: 10.91World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 13.65Berkeley Summer 2013: 12.77Berkeley Fall 2013: 13.34Caltech Fall Open 2013: 12.28Berkeley Winter 2014: 9.97Berkeley Mind Sports 2014: 9.71Berkeley Spring 2014: 13.06Berkeley Summer 2014: 10.97Berkeley Winter 2015: 13.059.7120.8614 Jun 200821 Feb 2015

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 1.71 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.33 away.

Targets move as he improves.