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Leo Hofer-Shall

3×3 · top 4.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2025 · 2025HOFE01

Leo Hofer-Shall has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.62, set at Rocky Mountain Championship 2026, puts him in the top 4.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,251st in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since April 2025, he has put 185 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 22.77 in April 2025 to 8.62, a 62% improvement. Leo has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.0% of 284,439 all-time
8.62
signature single · Rocky Mountain Championship 2026
185
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
3×38.6210.69
top 4.0%2,251 / 59,724
2×22.744.05
top 11.4%4,481 / 40,951
4×446.9055.56
top 20.7%3,145 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed23.4826.42
top 30.1%3,888 / 15,683
Pyraminx7.3510.08
top 30.8%8,576 / 28,708
Clock11.1813.23
top 31.0%2,425 / 8,927
Skewb7.688.77
top 38.9%6,678 / 18,907
5×51:52.20
early days — 2 solves3,623 / 9,401
Square-143.7157.20
top 69.7%4,581 / 6,743

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

Longmont Open 2025: 22.77Colorado Springs Spring 2025: 23.93Oredigger Open CO 2026: 12.12Cube Against Cancer Colorado 2026: 11.10Denver Mini 2026: 10.66Longmont Open 2026: 9.90Rocky Mountain Championship 2026: 8.628.6223.9319 Apr 202521 Aug 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.62 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.74 away.

Targets move as he improves.