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James Kershaw
Pyraminx · top 0.89% of 129,321 all-time · competing since January 2022 · 2022KERS01
James Kershaw has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.84, set at Great Peconic Bay 2025, puts him in the top 0.89% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 252nd in the United States. Until April 2012, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 44 competitions since January 2022, he has put 1,918 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.87 in January 2022 to 7.62, a 62% improvement. James has entered 44 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 1.84 | 3.32 | top 0.89% | 252 / 28,708 | |
| 2×2 | 1.41 | 2.26 | top 1.8% | 705 / 40,951 | |
| 3×3 | 7.62 | 9.40 | top 2.2% | 1,283 / 59,724 | |
| Skewb | 2.49 | 5.10 | top 2.8% | 418 / 18,907 | |
| 4×4 | 35.80 | 40.54 | top 7.5% | 1,141 / 19,072 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 15.79 | 20.35 | top 9.8% | 1,295 / 15,683 | |
| Square-1 | 12.22 | 19.33 | top 10.3% | 727 / 6,743 | |
| Megaminx | 1:01.82 | 1:16.77 | top 10.9% | 742 / 7,841 | |
| Clock | 7.23 | 8.31 | top 11.9% | 906 / 8,927 | |
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 29 moves | 37.33 | top 12.2% | 280 / 2,040 | |
| 5×5 | 1:19.92 | 1:26.37 | top 19.0% | 1,487 / 9,401 | |
| 6×6 | 2:46.23 | 2:52.94 | top 34.1% | 1,228 / 4,196 | |
| 7×7 | 4:34.06 | 4:56.56 | top 42.4% | 1,213 / 3,184 |
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
- 21 Mar 2026Three personal bests in one day at Crewe Spring 2026.
- 21 Jun 2024Three personal bests in one day at Pennsylvania Championship 2024.
- 12 May 2024Four personal bests in one day at North Jersey Speedsolving B 2024.
- 6 Apr 2024Four personal bests in one day at Ridgefield Spring 2024.
- 23 Mar 2024Three personal bests in one day at Don't Pop Princeton 2024.
- 3 Feb 2024Five personal bests in one day at Empire State Winter 2024.
Competitions
- Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026 · 2 Jul 2026 — 1 personal best set
- NAC Prep in Palisades 2026 · 20 Jun 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Great Peconic Bay 2026 · 17 May 2026
- Crewe Spring 2026 · 21 Mar 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Liberty Science Center Open B 2026 · 1 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- No Sprinting NY 2026 · 17 Jan 2026
- Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2025 · 27 Sep 2025
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- American Dream NJ 2025 · 4 May 2025
- Great Peconic Bay 2025 · 22 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025 · 1 Feb 2025
- Kisco Cubing 2025 · 4 Jan 2025
- Side Events in Nyack 2024 · 28 Sep 2024 — 1 personal best set
- New York Championship 2024 · 14 Sep 2024
- Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024 · 18 Jul 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Pennsylvania Championship 2024 · 21 Jun 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- New Jersey Championship 2024 · 25 May 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Wall Street Spring B 2024 · 19 May 2024 — 1 personal best set
- North Jersey Speedsolving B 2024 · 12 May 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Great Peconic Bay Spring 2024 · 20 Apr 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Ridgefield Spring 2024 · 6 Apr 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Don't Pop Princeton 2024 · 23 Mar 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Cubes on the Bayside Spring 2024 · 16 Mar 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Empire State Winter 2024 · 3 Feb 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- GCU Winter 2024 · 13 Jan 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Manhattan Mini D 2023 · 10 Dec 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Virginia Championship 2023 · 10 Nov 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Pretzel Mania Summer 2023 · 2 Sep 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Nationals 2023 · 27 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023 · 17 Jun 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Westchester Weeknights 2 2023 · 31 May 2023 — 1 personal best set
- PBQ NYC Spring 2023 · 7 May 2023
- TJHSST Spring 2023 · 6 May 2023
- Potomac Spring 2023 · 1 Apr 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- NJIT Spring 2023 · 18 Mar 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Pretzel Mania 2023 · 25 Feb 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Troy Story 2023 · 14 Jan 2023
- AZCubing Winter 2022 · 17 Dec 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Empire State Fall 2022 · 5 Nov 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Pretzel Mania 2022 · 3 Sep 2022 — 11 personal bests set
- Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022 · 7 Jul 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022 · 27 May 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Ohio State Expo Open 2022 · 1 Apr 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Empire State Winter B 2022 · 16 Jan 2022
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.
- Ayden Dincher — met in 254 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Rex Ozsvath — met in 243 rounds, finished ahead 106 times
- Evan Liu — met in 236 rounds, finished ahead 23 times
Next targets
- A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.84 away.
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.41 away.
Targets move as he improves.