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Shane Grogan

3×3 · top 0.64% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2011 · 2011GROG02

Shane Grogan has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.24, set at UCLA Spring 2025, puts him in the top 0.64% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 423rd in the United States. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 222 competitions since November 2011, he has put 8,390 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 71% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.46 in November 2011 to 6.24, a 57% improvement. Shane has entered 222 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.64% of 284,439 all-time
6.24
signature single · UCLA Spring 2025
8,390
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 71% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.248.07
top 0.64%423 / 59,724
4×424.9429.58
top 0.69%116 / 19,072
2×21.162.50
top 0.92%390 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed10.7714.05
top 1.6%262 / 15,683
5×552.3258.25
top 2.4%190 / 9,401
6×61:38.001:44.66
top 3.6%131 / 4,196
7×72:46.432:54.62
top 6.9%189 / 3,184
Megaminx54.781:04.26
top 7.3%510 / 7,841
3×3 Fewest Moves28 moves33.00
top 9.9%229 / 2,040
Skewb4.727.92
top 16.1%2,530 / 18,907
Square-116.2924.77
top 19.3%1,304 / 6,743
Clock9.4410.80
top 22.2%1,712 / 8,927
3×3 blindfolded1:37.852:24.18
top 25.8%539 / 2,092
3×3 Multi-Blind6 of 6 cubes · 51:16—
top 33.2%248 / 731
Pyraminx7.9311.80
top 35.6%10,065 / 28,708
4×4 blindfolded38:46.00—
early days — 3 solves437 / 440

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

Caltech Fall 2011: 14.46Caltech Winter 2012: 12.83World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 9.62Antelope Valley Fall 2013: 8.69Caltech Fall Open 2013: 9.00Caltech Winter Open 2014: 9.38San Diego Summer Splash 2014: 9.71Newport Cube Day 2014: 8.63Antelope Valley Fall 2014: 9.97Caltech Fall Open 2014: 8.12Newport Winter Open 2014: 9.50Nub Open 2015: 10.10St. Francis Winter Open 2015: 8.98Caltech Winter Open 2015: 6.89BASC 5: Everything But 2x2 2015: 9.33Orange Coast Puzzle Meet 2015: 8.38San Diego Summer Splash 2015: 9.18Alliance for Education 2015: 8.91SoCal Supercomp 2015: 9.13US Nationals 2015: 9.10Irvine Fall 2015: 8.06Caltech Fall 2015: 7.38Nub Open 2016: 8.40Caltech Winter 2016: 8.22Newport Spring 2016: 7.34St. Francis II: GYM 2016: 9.46Poly Cubed 2016: 8.99TFTI San Diego 2016: 9.04SoCal Supercomp 2016: 7.08US Nationals 2016: 8.79Caltech Winter 2017: 8.70Qualifornia 2017: 9.11Cerritos Open 2017: 8.32UCSD Summer 2017: 7.506.25 Bay Area 2017: 9.61Puget Sound Fall 2017: 8.73Newport Fall 2017: 8.30Thanks Four The Invite 2018: 7.93SacCubing III 2018: 8.05Berkeley Winter 2018: 8.89Cerritos Open 2018: 8.46Thanks for the InFive 2018: 8.49A Bruin Cube Day 2018: 8.93CubingUSA Western Championship 2018: 7.08West Coast Cubing Tour - Los Angeles 2018: 7.75CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 8.75CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2018: 8.28Nisei Week 2018: 7.91Anaheim Fall 2018: 7.64Poly Cubed 2018: 8.62CubeChella 2018: 8.60Welcome to 2019: 8.66Another Bruin Cube Day 2019: 8.70Mudd Winter 2019: 9.74UCSD Winter 2019: 8.90The Last Frontier Open 2019: 8.23CubingUSA Western Championship 2019: 8.47Warm Up Sydney 2019: 8.02WCA World Championship 2019: 8.39San Diego Summer 2019: 8.68Puget Sound NxNxN 2019: 8.81Utah Fall 2021: 8.98PLU NxN 2022: 7.20Utah Puzzling for Awareness 2022: 8.28Irvine Summer 2022: 7.71Marshall Cubing September 2022: 7.10WCC Western Championship 2022: 7.45Cubing for Cancer RPV 2022: 6.99AZCubing Winter 2022: 8.44San Diego's Final Cube-Down 2022: 7.84Music City Speedsolving 2023: 8.81Cozy Cubing Poway 2023: 7.42Sleepless in Seattle 2023: 8.26Circle City Turbocharged 2023: 7.44InTents Cubing Anza-Borrego 2023: 8.70A Bruin Cube Day Spring 2023: 8.42Up in the North 2023: 8.36You Only Need a 3x3 AZ 2023: 7.79Give Back RPV 2023: 8.22Gonna Need a Bigger Cube SD 2023: 7.80Never Stop Turning AZ 2023: 7.54SacCubing XIV 2023: 7.65Vegas Speedcubing Summer 2023: 7.68Poway Summer Cubing 2023: 7.74CubingUSA Western Championship 2023: 8.93Rialto Cubing Summer 2023: 8.67Agoura Cubing Again 2023: 8.00CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 7.56Santa Ana Summer A 2023: 6.83Corona Summer 2023: 6.92InTents Cubing Grand Canyon 2023: 8.09Irvine Fall 2023: 7.87UCSD Unofficial Events 2023: 8.14UCSD Extravaganza 2023: 8.21Jurupa Valley Cubing Fall 2023: 7.63Agoura SpookCubing 2023: 8.04Bay Area Speedcubin' 54 Live - SSF 2023: 7.63Thankful for Cubing RPV 2023: 7.42Nub Open Mission Viejo 2023: 7.89Beckman Gets Big 2023: 8.51UCSD Winter 2023: 7.39UCSD Winter 2024: 6.83Poway Cubing Winter 2024: 8.29University Heights Cubing Winter 2024: 8.06Vegas Cubing Cup Winter 2024: 7.09Triton Tricubealon 2024: 7.89Catalina Cube Mixer 2024: 8.15Fullerton Winter 2024: 8.01Orange County Newcomers 2024: 7.65DFW Megacomp 2024: 7.63Baja Spring 2024: 6.50Los Angeles Newcomers 2024: 7.50Santa Barbara Cubing 2024: 7.97Nub Open Yucaipa 2024: 7.75San Diego Big Cub 2024: 8.08Temecula Valley Spring 2024: 6.30Arizona Championship 2024: 7.32Vegas Cubing Cup Spring 2024: 8.18Agoura Cubing Returns 2024: 8.57Nub Open Mission Viejo Summer 2024: 8.38Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 8.19CubingUSA Western Championship 2024: 8.24Vegas Cubing Cup Summer 2024: 8.07La La Land 2024: 6.89Aliso Niguel Summer 2024: 8.97Super Duper San Diego 2024: 6.89UCSB Cubing 2024: 7.54Temecula Valley Fall 2024: 8.45Vegas Cubing Cup Fall 2024: 7.89UCSD Fall 2024: 7.37Cubes Canes & Joy Vegas 2024: 7.55CubeChella 2024: 7.52Nub Open Lake Forest 2024: 7.92Santa Barbara Winter 2025: 7.82Vegas Cubing Cup Winter 2025: 7.77Bay Area Side Events Day 2025: 7.41SoCal Speedcubing at Super STEM Saturday 2025: 8.16Baja Spring 2025: 8.56Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2025: 7.76Agoura Side Events Day 2025: 7.71UCLA Spring 2025: 6.24Burbank Big Cubes 2025: 7.54Vegas Cubing Cup Spring 2025: 6.98Arizona Championship 2025: 7.47Let's Cube Long Beach 2025: 7.07Nub Open Mission Viejo Spring 2025: 7.75Westview Cubing Favorites 2025: 8.30West Coast Cubing Tour: San Diego 2025: 7.97West Coast Cubing Tour: Los Angeles 2025: 8.89West Coast Cubing Tour: Berkeley 2025: 9.56Warm Up Seattle 2025: 7.44Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.15UCLA Summer 2025: 7.27CubingUSA New England Championship 2025: 7.35Vegas Cubing Cup Summer 2025: 7.93UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025: 8.31West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2025: 7.92Baja Warm Up III 2025: 6.88Nub Open Trabuco Hills Fall 2025: 7.11Mission Viejo Fall 2025: 7.80UCSD Unofficial Events 2025: 7.07UCSB Favorites 2025: 7.75Vegas Cubing Cup Fall 2025: 6.68Sendero Tijuana 2025: 7.15Huntington Park Winter 2025: 7.44Temecula Valley Winter 2025: 7.87Super Duper San Diego 2026: 7.57Arizona Championship 2026: 7.79Agoura Winter 2026: 8.05UCLA Spring 2026: 8.04Vegas Cubing Winter 2026: 6.75UCSD March A 2026: 8.51Temecula Valley Spring 2026: 7.04Poly Cubed at Pomona 2026: 7.70UCSD TritoNxN 2026: 8.40Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2026: 7.72City of STEM LA 2026: 8.86Westerns Warmup Riverside A 2026: 7.86West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2026: 7.45Agoura Summer 2026: 7.77Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 6.45Temecula Valley Summer 2026: 7.89Temecula Valley Back To School 2026: 8.09Bay Area Speedcubin' 69 2026: 8.146.2414.4619 Nov 201129 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.24 away.
  • A sub-20 4×4 single — 42 people have one; it is 4.94 away.

Targets move as he improves.