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Sophie Shiff

3×3 · top 32.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2025 · 2025SHIF01

Sophie Shiff has been competing for a year. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 17.58, set at UCLA Spring 2026, puts her in the top 32.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 18,188th in the United States. Across 3 competitions since August 2025, she has put 36 official solves on the record across five events. Her 3×3 best has come down from 30.40 in August 2025 to 17.58, a 42% improvement. Sophie has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 32.8% of 284,439 all-time
17.58
signature single · UCLA Spring 2026
36
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×317.5822.47
top 32.8%18,188 / 59,724
Pyraminx8.9014.27
top 44.0%12,609 / 28,708
2×27.1011.69
top 61.2%25,160 / 40,951
4×41:34.31
early days — 2 solves11,810 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed42.2846.46
top 68.4%9,798 / 15,683

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

UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025: 30.40SacCubing XXI 2025: 26.32UCLA Spring 2026: 17.5817.5830.4024 Aug 202515 Feb 2026

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.

Next targets

  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 2.58 away.
  • A sub-8 Pyraminx single — 46,752 people have one; it is 0.90 away.

Targets move as she improves.