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Shams Abtahi Ishmam

3×3 · top 5.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2017 · 2017ISHM02

Shams Abtahi Ishmam has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.33, set at Cube Milao Bangladesh 2022, puts him in the top 5.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 73rd in Bangladesh. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since December 2017, he has put 151 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.36 in December 2017 to 9.33, a 35% improvement. Shams has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.7% of 284,439 all-time
9.33
signature single · Cube Milao Bangladesh 2022
151
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingBangladesh
3×39.3312.72
top 5.7%73 / 773
3×3 one-handed17.4419.39
top 13.7%37 / 328
Skewb5.757.91
top 23.8%37 / 173
2×24.165.22
top 28.5%155 / 521
3×3 blindfolded3:44.27
top 64.3%15 / 35
4×41:46.75
top 74.8%205 / 255

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

Bangladesh Cubing Fiesta 2017: 14.36Dhaka Spring Open 2018: 10.73Knights Cubing Open 2019: 13.91Cube Milao Bangladesh 2022: 9.339.3314.3623 Dec 201723 Sep 2022

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.33 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 2.44 away.

Targets move as he improves.