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Fares Arshad Hussain Shah

3×3 · top 3.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2023 · 2023SHAH14

Fares Arshad Hussain Shah has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.57, set at Lleida Winter Open 2023, puts him in the top 3.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 11th in Egypt. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since February 2023, he has put 125 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 84% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Fares has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.9% of 284,439 all-time
8.57
signature single · Lleida Winter Open 2023
125
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 84% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingEgypt
3×38.5710.00
top 3.9%11 / 509
2×22.223.33
top 6.4%14 / 346
Skewb4.558.42
top 14.8%2 / 77
Pyraminx6.0011.54
top 20.0%16 / 207
3×3 one-handed23.7125.66
top 30.7%15 / 96
4×41:55.46
early days — 1 solve82 / 130

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

Lleida Winter Open 2023: 8.57Sant Valentí a Parets 2023: 9.13Martorell Open 2023: 9.37Piera Open 2023: 9.148.579.374 Feb 202329 Jul 2023

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 0.57 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.22 away.

Targets move as he improves.