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Zaid Shircliff

3×3 · top 42.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2022 · 2022SHIR01

Zaid Shircliff has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 21.04, set at Empire State Spring 2023, puts him in the top 42.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 24,512th in the United States. Across 6 competitions since January 2022, he has put 62 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 3 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 43.08 in January 2022 to 21.04, a 51% improvement. Zaid has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 42.8% of 284,439 all-time
21.04
signature single · Empire State Spring 2023
62
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×321.0425.65
top 42.8%24,512 / 59,724
2×25.576.80
top 46.1%18,649 / 40,951
Pyraminx9.7211.94
top 50.8%14,762 / 28,708

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

Empire State Winter A 2022: 43.08Happy Valley Spring 2022: 30.81Empire State Spring 2022: 24.26Troy Story 2023: 23.39Empire State Spring 2023: 21.04CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 21.8521.0443.0815 Jan 202217 Jun 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 1.04 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.57 away.

Targets move as he improves.