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Jonah Shapley

2×2 · top 2.0% of 186,767 all-time · competing since June 2022 · 2022SHAP03

Jonah Shapley has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.47, set at DuPage Winter 2024, puts him in the top 2.0% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 807th in the United States. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since June 2022, he has put 675 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.90 in June 2022 to 10.00, a 50% improvement. Jonah has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 2.0% of 186,767 all-time
1.47
signature single · DuPage Winter 2024
675
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.472.89
top 2.0%807 / 40,951
Pyraminx3.186.75
top 4.3%1,127 / 28,708
3×310.0013.72
top 7.4%4,099 / 59,724
Skewb5.4210.11
top 21.4%3,411 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed22.3228.19
top 26.9%3,474 / 15,683
4×455.101:03.83
top 30.9%4,865 / 19,072
Clock11.7013.12
top 33.5%2,653 / 8,927
Megaminx2:41.112:54.42
top 66.4%5,093 / 7,841
5×52:36.423:06.38
top 68.8%6,030 / 9,401

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

Michigan Cubing Club Alpha 2022: 19.90Get to the Point 2022: 18.30Cubing Peoria 2022: 14.10Mt. Prospect Open 2022: 16.52UIUC Fall 2022: 16.432x2 in a Madison Lodge 2022: 17.94Naperville Winter A 2022: 15.64Dubuque Winter 2023: 18.14Everything in Evanston B 2023: 17.26OH in a Madison Ballroom 2023: 15.60Warm Up in Mount Prospect 2023: 14.45Evanston Summer Side Events 2023: 13.21Get to Work Chicagoland 2023: 11.93Pyraminx in Pewaukee 2023: 14.84CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2023: 13.59The Core of Hobart 2023: 12.18Milwaukee Cubing Mania 2024: 11.73DuPage Winter 2024: 13.05Naperville Winter 2024: 10.00Muske-GO 2024: 13.14Countless Cubes Chicagoland A 2024: 13.11Chicago Area Twist Spring A 2024: 11.53Pyraminx in Pewaukee 2024: 12.4510.0019.9018 Jun 202226 Oct 2024

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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.47 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.18 away.

Targets move as he improves.