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Raymond Spencer Vance Shanafelt-Bower
3×3 · top 4.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2018 · 2018SHAN17
Raymond Spencer Vance Shanafelt-Bower has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.71, set at Vancouver Southlands Sprint 2024, puts him in the top 4.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,342nd in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since November 2018, he has put 236 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 4 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 38.29 in November 2018 to 8.71, a 77% improvement. Raymond has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 8.71 | 10.74 | top 4.2% | 2,342 / 59,724 | |
| Skewb | 3.58 | 5.47 | top 8.2% | 1,272 / 18,907 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.37 | 6.65 | top 9.6% | 2,470 / 28,708 | |
| 2×2 | 2.65 | 4.07 | top 10.4% | 4,094 / 40,951 | |
| Square-1 | 14.65 | 19.91 | top 15.6% | 1,052 / 6,743 | |
| 4×4 | 49.96 | 1:01.01 | top 24.7% | 3,773 / 19,072 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 25.98 | 31.72 | top 36.8% | 4,878 / 15,683 | |
| Megaminx | 2:10.03 | 2:22.24 | top 51.2% | 3,830 / 7,841 | |
| Clock | 16.10 | 19.79 | top 52.2% | 4,278 / 8,927 | |
| 6×6 | 4:16.81 | — | early days — 2 solves | 2,785 / 4,196 | |
| 5×5 | 4:27.29 | — | early days — 1 solve | 8,986 / 9,401 |
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, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 19 Oct 2024Five personal bests in one day at Vancouver Southlands Sprint 2024.
- 5 Oct 2024Three personal bests in one day at Bellevue Cubing Afternoon - Highlands 2024.
- 7 Sep 2024First sub-10 3×3: 9.74 at Kent Summer 2024.
- 7 Sep 2024Five personal bests in one day at Kent Summer 2024.
- 20 Nov 2021Three personal bests in one day at SnoCo Goes Back to Square-1 2021.
- 21 Sep 2019Five personal bests in one day at Puget Sound Fall 2019.
Competitions
- Vancouver Southlands Sprint 2024 · 19 Oct 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- Bellevue Cubing Afternoon - Highlands 2024 · 5 Oct 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Kent Summer 2024 · 7 Sep 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- SnoCo Goes Back to Square-1 2021 · 20 Nov 2021 — 3 personal bests set
- Puget Sound Fall 2019 · 21 Sep 2019 — 5 personal bests set
- PDX Cubing for Causes 2019 · 12 Jan 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Puget Sound NxNxN 2018 · 8 Dec 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Atomic Cubing Fall 2018 · 10 Nov 2018
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.
- Sameer Aggarwal — met in 34 rounds, never finished ahead
- Tripp Peters — met in 33 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Jonathan Truchot — met in 33 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.71 away.
- A sub-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.58 away.
Targets move as he improves.