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Shane Rowland

3×3 · top 21.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2010 · 2010ROWL01

Shane Rowland has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.00, set at Austin Spring Open 2025, puts him in the top 21.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 11,293rd in the United States. Across 40 competitions since February 2010, he has put 879 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 61% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 49.21 in February 2010 to 14.00, a 72% improvement. Shane has entered 40 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 21.0% of 284,439 all-time
14.00
signature single · Austin Spring Open 2025
879
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×314.0018.38
top 21.0%11,293 / 59,724
2×24.357.23
top 31.0%12,327 / 40,951
Pyraminx8.1511.97
top 37.4%10,664 / 28,708
4×41:02.001:09.77
top 38.6%6,263 / 19,072
5×51:55.492:09.71
top 46.3%3,832 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed32.1438.44
top 51.5%7,109 / 15,683
Clock16.2418.46
top 52.7%4,328 / 8,927
Skewb10.2515.15
top 56.4%10,268 / 18,907
6×63:34.813:49.88
top 56.7%2,149 / 4,196
Megaminx2:22.62—
top 57.8%4,335 / 7,841
Square-143.2851.07
top 69.1%4,547 / 6,743
7×76:07.26—
top 69.5%2,126 / 3,184

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

Drexel Winter 2010: 49.21Indiana Winter 2010: 47.25MIT Spring 2010: 45.66Baltimore Spring competition 2010: 34.94Iowa Open 2010: 28.28Safe Haven competition 2010: 31.93United States Rubik's Cube Championships 2010: 30.58DeVry University Open 2010: 20.75Washington DC Winter 2011: 23.34River Hill Spring 2011: 21.05Houston Winter 2013: 22.22Houston Winter Open 2014: 18.86Remember The Alamo 2014: 22.11Keep Austin Weird 2014: 18.56San Antonio Open 2014: 20.31Rice University 2014: 20.02Oklahoma Open 2014: 16.78Austin Cubing Limits 2015: 23.81Colorado Springs Open 2015: 20.25SMA Winter 2015: 22.00Remember The Alamo 2015: 19.06Texas Two-Day Showdown 2015: 16.08US Nationals 2015: 18.23HOOAH SMA 2015: 16.33Do the Cube at the DoSeum 2016: 22.60Texas Two-Day Showdown 2017: 18.33CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 17.92Yeehaw 2017: 21.50Longhorn Spring 2018: 19.65CubingUSA Southern Championship 2018: 18.03Turning in Texas 2018: 17.63Austin Fall 2019: 21.17DFW Cubing Summer 2024: 19.60Humble Cube Rumble Summer 2024: 18.98DFW Cubing Fall 2024: 17.01Austin NxN 2024: 19.14Texas Championship 2024: 17.52Austin Cubing Limits Winter 2025: 16.97Austin Spring Open 2025: 14.00Cube More in Taylor 2025: 19.0714.0049.216 Feb 20101 Jun 2025

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.00 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.35 away.

Targets move as he improves.