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Simon Shimel

3×3 · top 24.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2015 · 2015SHIM04

Simon Shimel has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 15.03, set at Puget Sound Winter 2017, puts him in the top 24.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13,323rd in the United States. Across 9 competitions since October 2015, he has put 137 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.60 in March 2016 to 15.03, a 41% improvement. Simon has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 24.5% of 284,439 all-time
15.03
signature single · Puget Sound Winter 2017
137
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×315.0318.34
top 24.5%13,323 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed26.0535.55
top 37.0%4,903 / 15,683
3×3 blindfolded2:12.32
top 37.4%786 / 2,092
3×3 Multi-Blind6 of 7 cubes · 47:30
early days — 2 solves296 / 731
4×41:05.141:17.95
top 41.9%6,882 / 19,072
5×51:53.192:00.07
top 44.8%3,687 / 9,401
2×25.727.87
top 47.9%19,387 / 40,951
Megaminx2:07.512:23.38
top 49.8%3,710 / 7,841
Pyraminx9.9623.39
top 52.7%15,367 / 28,708
Clock17.0140.62
top 55.5%4,601 / 8,927
Skewb10.2010.94
top 56.1%10,206 / 18,907
6×64:07.984:18.90
top 68.0%2,658 / 4,196
7×76:30.816:54.72
top 74.6%2,319 / 3,184
Square-155.71
early days — 2 solves5,393 / 6,743

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

PDX Cubing Alpha 2016: 25.60Puget Sound Spring 2016: 25.73US Nationals 2016: 20.00Puget Sound Winter 2017: 15.03Atomic Fools 2017: 16.25Puget Sound Fall 2017: 15.83Puget Sound Winter 2.0 2017: 16.95SnoCo Fall 2018: 15.0915.0325.735 Mar 201617 Nov 2018

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 0.03 away.
  • A sub-25 3×3 one-handed single — 25,198 people have one; it is 1.05 away.

Targets move as he improves.