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Shuwei Carlson

Pyraminx · top 14.2% of 129,321 all-time · competing since January 2016 · 2016CARL01

Shuwei Carlson has been competing for 11 years. Her best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 5.16, set at Fall River Cubikon 2023, puts her in the top 14.2% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,711th in the United States. Across 11 competitions since January 2016, she has put 178 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 41.85 in January 2016 to 16.58, a 60% improvement. Shuwei has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 14.2% of 129,321 all-time
5.16
signature single · Fall River Cubikon 2023
178
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Pyraminx5.167.28
top 14.2%3,711 / 28,708
2×24.065.13
top 27.3%10,764 / 40,951
3×316.5818.64
top 29.7%16,282 / 59,724
Clock12.5014.95
top 37.4%2,969 / 8,927
Skewb8.3715.82
top 44.1%7,744 / 18,907

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

Sharon Winter 2016: 41.85MIT Spring 2016: 43.39Lexington Summer 2016: 39.58UMass ODS Fall 2016: 34.22Weston Fall 2017: 30.36WPI Winter Cube Day 2018: 25.93Connect Community 2018: 19.89Boston University Winter 2019: 20.38Massachusetts Championship 2019: 18.51Puzzling in Providence 2023: 16.58Fall River Cubikon 2023: 18.9816.5843.3930 Jan 20165 Feb 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 her.

  • Will Russo — met in 30 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Alex Cohen — met in 28 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
  • James Quinn — met in 25 rounds, never finished ahead

Next targets

  • A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.16 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.06 away.

Targets move as she improves.