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Zachary Shaw

Clock · top 0.18% of 32,048 all-time · competing since November 2022 · 2022SHAW09

Zachary Shaw has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 2.40, set at TJHSST Winter 2026, puts him in the top 0.18% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 18th in the United States. Until April 2024, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since November 2022, he has put 1,067 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 80% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.21 in November 2022 to 6.67, a 40% improvement. Zachary has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 0.18% of 32,048 all-time
2.40
signature single · TJHSST Winter 2026
1,067
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 80% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Clock2.402.97
top 0.18%18 / 8,927
3×36.678.23
top 1.0%633 / 59,724
2×21.312.20
top 1.4%576 / 40,951
4×431.2435.26
top 3.6%585 / 19,072
5×557.551:04.86
top 4.3%356 / 9,401
Pyraminx4.005.17
top 7.6%1,955 / 28,708
Square-111.1118.47
top 8.2%593 / 6,743
3×3 one-handed15.1316.94
top 8.4%1,111 / 15,683
Skewb3.875.17
top 10.0%1,533 / 18,907
3×3 blindfolded1:01.19—
top 13.4%254 / 2,092
Megaminx1:10.941:16.13
top 16.2%1,109 / 7,841
6×62:26.862:34.03
top 24.0%848 / 4,196
7×75:14.545:28.18
top 55.3%1,635 / 3,184
3×3 Multi-Blind4 of 8 cubes · 48:44—
early days — 1 solve728 / 731

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

Iowa Fall 2022: 11.21Michigan 2023: 9.88Evanston Fall 2023: 8.21Big Cube Battle of Waterloo 2024: 7.88UIUC Big Cubes Spring 2024: 7.71K-State Cubing Spring 2024: 8.39Countless Cubes Chicagoland A 2024: 8.15KCKC 6 Cubing for Cake 2024: 7.54Cornhusker Cubing Classic 2024: 8.49Wichita Art Museum 2025: 7.02Doing Time in Leavenworth 2025: 8.39Kansas Championship 2025: 7.32Virginia Championship 2025: 8.08ODU Big Blue Open 2025: 7.96TJHSST Winter 2026: 7.28Williamsburg Open Spring 2026: 6.86Welcome to Washington D.C. 2026: 8.28RVA Spring 2026: 6.67Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 7.676.6711.2119 Nov 20222 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-2 Clock single — 17 people have one; it is 0.40 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.67 away.

Targets move as he improves.