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Sam Shaw

Clock · top 0.75% of 32,048 all-time · competing since April 2016 · 2016SHAW02

Sam Shaw has been competing for 10 years. Their best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 3.00, set at Wiltshire March 2024, puts them in the top 0.75% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 18th in the United Kingdom. Until May 2021, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 101 competitions since April 2016, they have put 4,647 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, their 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Their 3×3 best has come down from 24.39 in April 2016 to 8.47, a 65% improvement. Sam has entered 101 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 0.75% of 32,048 all-time
3.00
signature single · Wiltshire March 2024
4,647
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
Clock3.004.20
top 0.75%18 / 1,232
Pyraminx2.924.14
top 3.4%139 / 3,656
3×38.4711.36
top 3.7%301 / 6,689
4×431.5738.99
top 3.8%95 / 2,071
5×559.071:05.58
top 5.0%71 / 1,151
3×3 Fewest Moves25 moves32.67
top 5.1%29 / 372
7×72:38.962:43.56
top 5.3%24 / 459
6×61:45.011:57.22
top 5.5%36 / 548
2×22.304.09
top 7.0%489 / 4,895
Square-113.5118.67
top 13.0%135 / 778
Megaminx1:13.871:29.77
top 18.0%211 / 966
Skewb5.107.33
top 18.9%440 / 2,421
3×3 one-handed19.8327.20
top 20.0%382 / 1,851
3×3 blindfolded1:51.07—
top 30.3%133 / 311

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

Exeter Open 2016: 24.39Macclesfield Open 2016: 21.65Guildford Open 2016: 24.15UK Championship 2016: 21.90Birmingham Open 2016: 18.50Newcastle-under-Lyme Open 2017: 15.68August Bank Holiday Competition 2017: 19.71Guildford Open 2017: 18.16UK Championship 2017: 18.51Manchester Open 2018: 14.19Guildford Open 2018: 14.67High Wycombe Open 2018: 14.72Hastings Open 2018: 14.96August Bank Holiday Competition 2018: 16.21Stratford-upon-Avon Open 2018: 13.44UK Championship 2018: 15.82Weston-super-Mare Open 2018: 15.56Cambridge Open 2018: 15.39Manchester Open 2019: 12.49Chester Open 2019: 14.81Lincoln Open 2019: 14.36High Wycombe Open 2019: 11.35Leeds Open 2019: 14.01August Bank Holiday Celebration 2019: 13.79UK Championship 2019: 13.02Every Event Éire 2019: 14.66Guildford Open 2020: 14.12Fontwell Open 2020: 13.33Doncaster Open 2020: 14.37Lincoln Summer 2022: 13.14Stevenage Autumn B 2022: 11.03Chippenham Autumn 2022: 13.00Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 13.29UK New Year Countdown 2023: 13.49Glasgow Winter 2023: 10.31Guildford Winter 2023: 12.65Wiltshire Spring 2023: 11.30Wakefield Spring 2023: 12.47Essex Spring 2023: 9.47Weston-super-Mare Spring 2023: 12.64Bristol Summer 2023: 10.90Edinburgh Summer 2023: 10.98North Highlands Summer 2023: 10.04Harrow Autumn 2023: 10.28Wiltshire Autumn 2023: 10.10Wakefield Autumn 2023: 10.39Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 10.32Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2023: 9.98Wiltshire February 2024: 10.51Wiltshire March 2024: 8.68Crewe Spring 2024: 10.08Wakefield Summer 2024: 10.89Bristol Summer 2024: 11.09Wiltshire September 2024: 10.71Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 10.83Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2024: 10.44Wiltshire November 2024: 8.92Bristol Winter Open 2024: 10.11Festligt Farvel til 2024: 10.41Hampshire Winter 2025: 11.46Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 11.17Bristol August 2025: 9.78Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2025: 10.64Weston-super-Mare Winter 2026: 9.82Wiltshire Spring 2026: 8.47Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 10.418.4724.392 Apr 201628 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 their.

Next targets

  • A sub-2 Clock single — 17 people have one; it is 1.00 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.92 away.

Targets move as they improves.