People · Canada
Neel Shah
2×2 · top 3.1% of 186,767 all-time · competing since September 2009 · 2009SHAH04
Neel Shah has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.71, set at Toronto Summer 2012, puts him in the top 3.1% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 204th in Canada. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since September 2009, he has put 700 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 2×2 best has come down from 4.43 in January 2010 to 1.71, a 61% improvement. Neel has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 1.71 | 3.18 | top 3.1% | 204 / 7,173 | |
| 3×3 | 8.78 | 10.47 | top 4.4% | 419 / 10,392 | |
| 4×4 | 35.19 | 43.57 | top 6.9% | 159 / 3,118 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 15.38 | 18.50 | top 8.9% | 198 / 2,620 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.12 | 6.80 | top 13.9% | 544 / 4,858 | |
| Megaminx | 1:11.13 | 1:17.74 | top 16.3% | 137 / 1,375 | |
| Square-1 | 22.02 | 31.53 | top 32.5% | 283 / 952 | |
| 5×5 | 1:43.27 | 2:07.15 | top 37.8% | 474 / 1,499 |
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, 2×2. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 6 Jul 2013Three personal bests in one day at Canadian Open 2013.
- 16 Feb 2013First sub-10 3×3: 8.78 at Toronto Open Winter 2013.
- 16 Feb 2013Three personal bests in one day at Toronto Open Winter 2013.
- 18 Aug 2012Five personal bests in one day at Toronto Summer 2012.
- 5 Mar 2011Three personal bests in one day at Toronto Open Winter 2011.
- 27 Nov 2010Four personal bests in one day at Toronto Open Fall 2010.
Competitions
- Cubing in the 6ix 2019 · 24 Aug 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Return to Toronto 2019 · 2 Feb 2019 — 1 personal best set
- CanadianCUBING Fifty 2014 · 5 Jul 2014
- Canadian Open 2013 · 6 Jul 2013 — 3 personal bests set
- Toronto Open Winter 2013 · 16 Feb 2013 — 3 personal bests set
- Toronto Summer 2012 · 18 Aug 2012 — 5 personal bests set
- Toronto Spring 2012 · 2 Jun 2012 — 1 personal best set
- Toronto Open Winter 2012 · 11 Feb 2012 — 2 personal bests set
- Canadian Open 2011 · 20 Aug 2011 — 2 personal bests set
- canadianCUBING CUBEcentric 2011 · 4 Jun 2011 — 2 personal bests set
- Toronto Open Spring 2011 · 16 Apr 2011 — 2 personal bests set
- Toronto Open Winter 2011 · 5 Mar 2011 — 3 personal bests set
- Toronto Open Fall 2010 · 27 Nov 2010 — 4 personal bests set
- Mumbai Rubik's Cube Challenge 2010 · 18 Jun 2010
- canadianCUBING CUBEcentric 2010 · 15 May 2010 — 2 personal bests set
- Toronto Open Spring 2010 · 27 Mar 2010 — 3 personal bests set
- Toronto Open Winter 2010 · 30 Jan 2010 — 3 personal bests set
- Canadian Open 2009 · 19 Sep 2009
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.
- Thompson Clarke — met in 130 rounds, finished ahead 33 times
- Jai Gambhir — met in 113 rounds, finished ahead 35 times
- Justin Jaffray — met in 102 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
Next targets
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.71 away.
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.78 away.
Targets move as he improves.