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Stanley Sha

3×3 · top 4.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2017 · 2017SHAS05

Stanley Sha has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.82, set at West Coast Cubing Tour: Los Angeles 2025, puts him in the top 4.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,481st in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since April 2017, he has put 252 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 71% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.33 in April 2017 to 8.82, a 46% improvement. Stanley has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.5% of 284,439 all-time
8.82
signature single · West Coast Cubing Tour: Los Angeles 2025
252
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 71% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.8210.89
top 4.5%2,481 / 59,724
4×435.1740.21
top 6.9%1,064 / 19,072
Pyraminx4.647.68
top 11.0%2,872 / 28,708
Skewb4.648.23
top 15.5%2,435 / 18,907
2×23.253.84
top 17.2%6,726 / 40,951
Square-118.1922.56
top 23.8%1,572 / 6,743
6×62:32.882:41.85
top 27.1%952 / 4,196
5×51:35.011:49.92
top 31.5%2,490 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed24.2030.75
top 32.0%4,176 / 15,683
Megaminx1:39.851:52.26
top 34.5%2,449 / 7,841

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

Red Cross Cubing Open 2017: 16.33Princeton Fall 2017: 12.29Rutgers Spring 2018: 14.18First State 2018: 11.53Fall Foliage Cubing 2018: 11.66New Hope Open Winter 2019: 11.64CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 9.76West Coast Cubing Tour: Los Angeles 2025: 8.82Temecula Valley Summer 2026: 9.828.8216.3322 Apr 201725 Jul 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 his.

  • AJ Kamal — met in 38 rounds, finished ahead once
  • Mitchell Hum — met in 35 rounds, finished ahead once
  • Dana Yi — met in 34 rounds, finished ahead 4 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.82 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 5.17 away.

Targets move as he improves.