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Shannon Rioux-Smith

3×3 · top 10.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2017 · 2017RIOU01

Shannon Rioux-Smith has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.94, set at Thornhill Spring 2024, puts him in the top 10.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 951st in Canada. Across 5 competitions since June 2017, he has put 127 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.64 in June 2017 to 10.94, a 44% improvement. Shannon has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 10.3% of 284,439 all-time
10.94
signature single · Thornhill Spring 2024
127
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×310.9413.70
top 10.3%951 / 10,392
2×23.654.74
top 22.1%1,476 / 7,173
Pyraminx6.808.55
top 26.2%1,121 / 4,858
Skewb6.2710.47
top 27.9%670 / 2,907
3×3 one-handed34.2140.96
top 55.8%1,322 / 2,620
4×41:29.93
top 63.5%1,806 / 3,118
5×53:20.00
early days — 2 solves1,166 / 1,499
6×66:39.20
early days — 1 solve601 / 665
Square-11:26.99
early days — 2 solves896 / 952

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

Newmarket Open 2017: 19.64Oakville Limited Fall 2017: 13.52Oakville Limited Winter 2018: 14.77Newmarket Open 2019: 12.91Thornhill Spring 2024: 10.9410.9419.6417 Jun 201720 Apr 2024

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.94 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.65 away.

Targets move as he improves.