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Isaac Scheepers

3×3 · top 0.17% of 288,433 all-time · competing since March 2022 · 2022SCHE05

Isaac Scheepers has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.24, set at GAN WCA African Championship 2026, puts him in the top 0.17% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in South Africa. Until November 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 29 competitions since March 2022, he has put 1,644 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.12 in March 2022 to 5.24, a 48% improvement. Isaac has entered 29 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.17% of 288,433 all-time
5.24
signature single · GAN WCA African Championship 2026
1,644
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
3×35.247.81
top 0.17%4 / 2,187
4×427.0432.06
top 1.4%3 / 495
5×552.1358.44
top 2.4%4 / 225
2×21.652.51
top 2.9%25 / 1,525
Skewb2.536.66
top 3.0%13 / 444
Pyraminx3.535.83
top 5.6%34 / 958
Square-110.2814.21
top 6.6%7 / 121
3×3 one-handed15.3019.75
top 8.8%26 / 473
6×62:05.552:15.69
top 13.5%9 / 87
Megaminx1:08.331:10.68
top 14.7%20 / 268
7×74:37.335:12.53
top 43.7%23 / 73
Clock14.6517.64
top 46.5%67 / 153
3×3 Fewest Moves40 moves—
early days — 2 solves28 / 54
3×3 blindfolded3:53.66—
early days — 3 solves32 / 54
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 4 cubes · 26:32—
early days — 1 solve26 / 28

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

Cape Town Summer 2022: 10.12Gauteng Autumn 2022: 10.69Arnold Classic Africa 2022: 8.40Inni-Horie-Fees Speedcubing 2022: 9.39Rubik's WCA African Championship 2022: 8.85Crazy Cubing Centurion 2023: 7.23CubingZA National Championship 2023: 7.11Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 6.80Pretoria Spring Afternoon 2023: 6.90CubingZA Cape Cubes Challenge 2023: 7.04Cubestuff Challenge Q1 2024: 6.19Cubestuff Challenge Q2 2024: 7.30Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Q3 2024: 7.81Benoni Cubing Comeback 2024: 7.88Rubik's WCA African Championship 2024: 5.91Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Hotel Q1 2025: 7.87CuBeaulieu Craze Comeback 2025: 8.33CubingZA Nationals 2025: 7.07Cubestuff Centurion Q3 2025: 7.29Menlo Cubing Open 2025: 8.10Cubestuff Grand Challenge Cape Town 2025: 5.70Cubestuff Centurion Q2 2026: 7.30Benoni May Madness 2026: 6.95Cubestuff Grand Challenge - The Leonardo 2026: 6.96Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Q3 2026: 6.24GAN WCA African Championship 2026: 5.245.2410.696 Mar 202224 Sep 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-5 3×3 single — 355 people have one; it is 0.24 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 614 people have one; it is 2.04 away.

Targets move as he improves.