People · Canada
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.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 9.71 | 12.88 | top 6.7% | 634 / 10,392 | |
| 2×2 | 2.33 | 3.79 | top 7.3% | 474 / 7,173 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 18.02 | 21.74 | top 15.1% | 319 / 2,620 | |
| 4×4 | 48.81 | 54.57 | top 23.2% | 592 / 3,118 | |
| 5×5 | 1:38.02 | 1:47.79 | top 33.9% | 420 / 1,499 | |
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 37 moves | — | early days — 3 solves | 119 / 283 | |
| Pyraminx | 9.38 | 15.38 | top 48.0% | 2,268 / 4,858 | |
| 6×6 | 3:29.65 | 3:36.24 | top 54.5% | 295 / 665 | |
| 7×7 | 5:58.55 | 6:22.85 | top 67.3% | 299 / 503 | |
| Megaminx | 3:24.83 | — | early days — 2 solves | 1,044 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 16 Mar 2014Seven personal bests in one day at Berkeley Mind Sports 2014.
- 1 Feb 2014First sub-10 3×3: 9.97 at Berkeley Winter 2014.
- 27 Apr 2013Four personal bests in one day at Berkeley Spring 2013.
- 17 Nov 2012Three personal bests in one day at Berkeley Autumn 2012.
- 10 Nov 2012Three personal bests in one day at Stanford Fall 2012.
- 19 Mar 2011First sub-15 3×3: 13.55 at Big Cubes BC 2011.
Competitions
- Berkeley Winter 2015 · 21 Feb 2015 — 1 personal best set
- Berkeley Summer 2014 · 6 Sep 2014 — 1 personal best set
- Berkeley Spring 2014 · 19 Apr 2014 — 1 personal best set
- Berkeley Mind Sports 2014 · 16 Mar 2014 — 7 personal bests set
- Berkeley Winter 2014 · 1 Feb 2014 — 2 personal bests set
- Caltech Fall Open 2013 · 16 Nov 2013 — 1 personal best set
- Berkeley Fall 2013 · 2 Nov 2013
- Berkeley Summer 2013 · 3 Aug 2013 — 1 personal best set
- World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013 · 26 Jul 2013 — 2 personal bests set
- Berkeley Spring 2013 · 27 Apr 2013 — 4 personal bests set
- Berkeley Winter 2013 · 9 Mar 2013 — 2 personal bests set
- Berkeley Autumn 2012 · 17 Nov 2012 — 3 personal bests set
- Stanford Fall 2012 · 10 Nov 2012 — 3 personal bests set
- Berkeley Fall 2012 · 2 Sep 2012
- Vancouver Winter 2011 · 10 Dec 2011 — 1 personal best set
- Big Cubes BC 2011 · 19 Mar 2011 — 7 personal bests set
- Vancouver Open 2009 · 12 Sep 2009 — 4 personal bests set
- Vancouver Open Summer 2008 · 14 Jun 2008
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.
- Mitchell Lane — met in 109 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Edward Lin — met in 87 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Chia-Wei Lu (呂家維) — met in 80 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
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.