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Hammaad Shah

3×3 · top 9.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2010 · 2010SHAH07

Hammaad Shah has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.51, set at Johns Hopkins Winter 2015, puts him in the top 9.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,922nd in the United States. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since December 2010, he has put 104 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 65% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.58 in December 2010 to 10.51, a 49% improvement. Hammaad has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.0% of 284,439 all-time
10.51
signature single · Johns Hopkins Winter 2015
104
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×310.5114.34
top 9.0%4,922 / 59,724
4×458.261:07.11
top 34.6%5,571 / 19,072

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

River Hill Fall 2010: 20.58Washington DC Winter 2011: 14.53River Hill Summer 2012: 13.61River Hill Winter 2013: 12.47Chesapeake Science Point Spring 2013: 13.38World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 15.07Chesapeake Science Point Fall 2013: 14.59River Hill Winter 2015: 15.13Johns Hopkins Winter 2015: 10.51Slow N Steady Spring 2017: 13.07New York City Spring 2018: 14.54Rally in the Valley 2019: 15.0710.5120.5811 Dec 201027 Jul 2019

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 0.51 away.
  • A sub-50 4×4 single — 20,746 people have one; it is 8.26 away.

Targets move as he improves.