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Shawn Hong
3×3 · top 7.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2020 · 2020HONG01
Shawn Hong has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.12, set at West Coast Cubing Tour: Los Angeles 2025, puts him in the top 7.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,300th in the United States. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since January 2020, he has put 45 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.11 in January 2020 to 10.12, a 52% improvement. Shawn has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.12 | 11.61 | top 7.8% | 4,300 / 59,724 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.60 | 8.66 | top 10.8% | 2,824 / 28,708 | |
| 2×2 | 3.53 | 4.21 | top 20.6% | 8,067 / 40,951 | |
| 4×4 | 52.40 | 1:02.68 | top 27.7% | 4,287 / 19,072 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 22 Jun 2025First sub-15 3×3: 10.12 at West Coast Cubing Tour: Los Angeles 2025.
- 22 Feb 2020First sub-20 3×3: 17.20 at Mudd Winter 2020.
- 18 Jan 2020First competition: UCSD Winter 2020. A 21.11 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- West Coast Cubing Tour: Los Angeles 2025 · 22 Jun 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Mudd Winter 2020 · 22 Feb 2020 — 1 personal best set
- UCSD Winter 2020 · 18 Jan 2020
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.
- Jack Flynn Stewart — met in 9 rounds, never finished ahead
- Nate Minkevich — met in 8 rounds, finished ahead once
- Chris Martin — met in 6 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.12 away.
- A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.60 away.
Targets move as he improves.