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Shumit Khan

3×3 · top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2022 · 2022KHAN67

Shumit Khan has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.17, set at DFW Cubing Spring 2025, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 930th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since November 2022, he has put 205 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.09 in November 2022 to 7.17, a 29% improvement. Shumit has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time
7.17
signature single · DFW Cubing Spring 2025
205
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.179.19
top 1.5%930 / 59,724
2×22.403.10
top 8.0%3,139 / 40,951
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves40.00
early days — 3 solves810 / 2,040

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

CubingUSA Texas Championship 2022: 10.09DFW Cubing Summer 2023: 9.85CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 7.74Pretzel Mania Dallas 2023: 8.44DFW Cubing Winter 2024: 8.24DFW Cubing Spring 2024: 8.80Cube Against Cancer DFW 2025: 8.13DFW Cubing Spring 2025: 7.17Cube On in Richardson 2025: 8.537.1710.0919 Nov 202215 Nov 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.17 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.40 away.

Targets move as he improves.