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Shonathon Collins

3×3 · top 0.93% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2011 · 2011COLL02

Shonathon Collins has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.59, set at Bayou Bash 2018, puts him in the top 0.93% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 586th in the United States. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 56 competitions since May 2011, he has put 2,299 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 42.36 in May 2011 to 6.59, an 84% improvement. Shonathon has entered 56 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.93% of 284,439 all-time
6.59
signature single · Bayou Bash 2018
2,299
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.598.18
top 0.93%586 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed10.0114.87
top 1.1%168 / 15,683
2×21.232.81
top 1.1%474 / 40,951
4×433.9042.56
top 5.8%886 / 19,072
3×3 Fewest Moves27 moves32.00
top 8.0%187 / 2,040
Pyraminx4.708.26
top 11.4%2,969 / 28,708
Megaminx1:03.721:08.53
top 11.9%807 / 7,841
5×51:10.901:19.81
top 12.2%943 / 9,401
Skewb4.516.47
top 14.5%2,266 / 18,907
6×62:13.782:28.06
top 17.2%608 / 4,196
7×73:31.043:39.62
top 20.1%569 / 3,184
Square-117.1331.24
top 21.3%1,420 / 6,743
Clock15.5418.91
top 50.1%4,084 / 8,927
3×3 blindfolded3:24.42—
top 59.4%1,257 / 2,092

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

Houston Spring 2011: 42.36United States National Championships 2012: 14.44Houston Winter 2013: 12.36World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 12.05Houston Winter Open 2014: 12.40Carroll Spring Open 2014: 12.46Remember The Alamo 2014: 10.28Keep Austin Weird 2014: 10.48US Nationals 2014: 10.31San Antonio Open 2014: 12.20Rice University 2014: 11.60Oklahoma Open 2014: 10.12Austin Cubing Limits 2015: 11.64SMA Winter 2015: 10.03Small Cubes Open 2015: 10.66Texas Two-Day Showdown 2015: 10.33US Nationals 2015: 11.08Dallas Back to School 2015: 11.42AZCubing Fall 2015: 9.75HOOAH SMA 2015: 8.26South East Texas Open 2016: 10.89OKCubing 2016: 11.16AZCubing Winter 2016: 10.31Do the Cube at the DoSeum 2016: 10.74Austin Summer Open 2016: 10.56Cajun Cube Clash 2016: 10.99Bay Area Speedcubin' 9 2016: 10.53US Nationals 2016: 9.79South East Texas Open 2017: 10.73College Station Qualifier 2017: 10.82Don't Mess With Texas 2017: 11.40South Omaha Speedsolve 2017: 10.93Texas Two-Day Showdown 2017: 9.01Southern Championships 2017: 9.29Cajun Cube Clash 2017: 10.64Yeehaw 2017: 10.46Longhorn Cube Day 2017: 7.34South East Texas Open 2018: 7.39Howdy Partner 2018: 7.46Longhorn Spring 2018: 10.62Bayou Bash 2018: 6.59Longhorn Fall 2018: 9.38Southeast Texas Winter 2019: 10.05Katy Cubing 2019: 9.61Houston Winter 2020: 10.17CubingUSA Southern Championship 2022: 8.73CubingUSA Southern Championship 2023: 10.546.5942.3621 May 201122 Jun 2023

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 0.59 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 0.01 away.

Targets move as he improves.