People · United States
Jacob Sherwood
3×3 · top 5.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022SHER07
Jacob Sherwood has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.35, set at TN Speedsolving Winter 2024, puts him in the top 5.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,180th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since July 2022, he has put 198 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 98% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.64 in July 2022 to 9.35, a 20% improvement. Jacob has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 9.35 | 11.61 | top 5.7% | 3,180 / 59,724 | |
| Skewb | 4.23 | 9.51 | top 12.5% | 1,940 / 18,907 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.19 | 8.65 | top 14.4% | 3,762 / 28,708 | |
| 2×2 | 3.02 | 4.29 | top 14.5% | 5,677 / 40,951 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 19.61 | 22.22 | top 19.5% | 2,499 / 15,683 | |
| 4×4 | 48.32 | 51.70 | top 22.5% | 3,411 / 19,072 | |
| 5×5 | 1:57.87 | 2:15.17 | top 48.0% | 4,004 / 9,401 | |
| Clock | 23.86 | 24.51 | top 74.4% | 6,485 / 8,927 |
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
- 10 Feb 2024Five personal bests in one day at TN Speedsolving Winter 2024.
- 17 Dec 2022First sub-10 3×3: 9.54 at Cubing in Cambridge 2022.
- 17 Dec 2022Five personal bests in one day at Cubing in Cambridge 2022.
- 29 Jul 2022First competition: CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2022. A 12.93 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Vanderbilt Spring 2024 · 9 Mar 2024
- TN Speedsolving Winter 2024 · 10 Feb 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- Music City Speedsolving Fall 2023 · 9 Sep 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Music City Speedsolving 2023 · 21 Jan 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubing in Cambridge 2022 · 17 Dec 2022 — 5 personal bests set
- Cubetcha 2022 · 8 Oct 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2022 · 29 Jul 2022 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Raymond Goslow — met in 30 rounds, never finished ahead
- Katie Hull — met in 29 rounds, never finished ahead
- Eddie Smith — met in 26 rounds, finished ahead 18 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.35 away.
- A sub-4 Skewb single — 7,977 people have one; it is 0.23 away.
Targets move as he improves.