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Michael Shatkin

3×3 · top 45.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2024 · 2024SHAT01

Michael Shatkin has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 22.17, set at Newark Academy Spring 2024, puts him in the top 45.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 26,492nd in the United States. Across 5 competitions since February 2024, he has put 34 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. Michael has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 45.9% of 284,439 all-time
22.17
signature single · Newark Academy Spring 2024
34
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×322.1728.57
top 45.9%26,492 / 59,724
2×26.668.17
top 57.5%23,554 / 40,951

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

Empire State Winter 2024: 23.62Great Peconic Bay Spring 2024: 27.64Spring into Summit 2024: 28.11New Jersey Championship 2024: 22.87Newark Academy Spring 2024: 22.1722.1728.113 Feb 20242 Jun 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-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 2.17 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 0.66 away.

Targets move as he improves.