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Larry Shi

3×3 · top 0.96% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2019 · 2019SHIL03

Larry Shi has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.62, set at Battle of Waterloo 2024, puts him in the top 0.96% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 97th in Canada. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since September 2019, he has put 731 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 65% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.47 in September 2019 to 6.62, a 42% improvement. Larry has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.96% of 284,439 all-time
6.62
signature single · Battle of Waterloo 2024
731
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×36.628.14
top 0.96%97 / 10,392
Skewb2.443.43
top 2.7%39 / 2,907
3×3 one-handed12.4017.94
top 3.5%76 / 2,620
Pyraminx4.047.02
top 7.9%281 / 4,858
2×22.633.78
top 10.2%667 / 7,173
4×439.9350.85
top 12.1%296 / 3,118
Megaminx1:56.732:03.33
top 44.0%483 / 1,375

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

Battle of Waterloo 2019: 11.47Leap to Barrie 2020: 8.893x3x3 Only Hamilton A 2022: 8.51Battle of Waterloo 2022: 7.57Richmond Hill 2022: 9.30Ajax First-Timers 2022: 8.57Oakville Fall A 2022: 8.16Appleby Winter A 2023: 8.94Waterloo Favourites A 2023: 8.13London Winter B 2023: 8.12Pickering D 2023: 8.14Newmarket Favourites 2023: 7.57Markham 3x3x3 Morning 2023: 8.23Southern Ontario Summer - Waterloo 2023: 7.30Canadian Championship 2023: 7.73Rubik's x Speedcubing Canada All-Stars 2023: 7.17Waterloo Favourites Fall 2023: 8.35Pickering Fall B 2023: 7.60Scarborough Fall B 2023: 6.81Waterloo Favourites Autumn 2023: 7.00Greater Toronto 2024: 7.17Thornhill Spring 2024: 7.00Battle of Waterloo 2024: 6.62Waterloo Fall 2025: 6.95Western Ontario Winter 2026: 7.166.6211.4714 Sep 201914 Mar 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.62 away.
  • A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.44 away.

Targets move as he improves.