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Phetolo Mashamaite

3×3 · top 9.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2023 · 2023MASH04

Phetolo Mashamaite has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.78, set at Beginner & Blind Benoni 2026, puts him in the top 9.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 106th in South Africa. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since November 2023, he has put 535 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 93% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.44 in November 2023 to 10.78, a 68% improvement. Phetolo has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.8% of 284,439 all-time
10.78
signature single · Beginner & Blind Benoni 2026
535
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 93% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
3×310.7814.52
top 9.8%106 / 2,164
2×23.035.27
top 14.6%143 / 1,510
Pyraminx6.4510.65
top 23.4%179 / 946
3×3 one-handed24.7627.41
top 33.6%96 / 467
4×458.291:12.92
top 34.6%115 / 491
Skewb9.4813.44
top 51.7%197 / 438
3×3 blindfolded2:59.61—
top 52.3%23 / 53
Megaminx2:15.892:34.94
top 54.2%102 / 266
5×52:16.352:36.97
top 59.0%106 / 221
Square-138.1540.41
top 63.0%74 / 118

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

Pretoria Spring Morning 2023: 33.44Cubestuff Challenge Q1 2024: 27.70Cubestuff Challenge Q2 2024: 21.55Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Q3 2024: 17.39Benoni Cubing Comeback 2024: 15.93Inni-Horie-Fees 2024: 15.56Cubestuff Challenge Q4 Menlyn Park 2024: 14.01CuBeaulieu Craze 2024: 14.59Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Hotel Q1 2025: 16.11CuBeaulieu Craze Comeback 2025: 13.62CubingZA Nationals 2025: 14.40Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Q2 2025: 12.46Cubestuff Centurion Q3 2025: 13.47Menlo Cubing Open 2025: 13.60Beginner & Blind Benoni 2026: 10.78Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Q3 2026: 14.7710.7833.4425 Nov 20231 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.78 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.03 away.

Targets move as he improves.