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Alex Niedland

3×3 · top 0.29% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2018 · 2018NIED01

Alex Niedland has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.61, set at Fort Lee Summer 2025, puts him in the top 0.29% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 195th in the United States. Until March 2013, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 75 competitions since April 2018, he has put 2,742 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 72% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.99 in April 2018 to 5.61, an 82% improvement. Alex has entered 75 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.29% of 284,439 all-time
5.61
signature single · Fort Lee Summer 2025
2,742
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.616.53
top 0.29%195 / 59,724
2×21.002.14
top 0.55%229 / 40,951
4×424.4330.28
top 0.57%99 / 19,072
Square-16.019.26
top 0.81%71 / 6,743
3×3 one-handed11.3213.93
top 2.2%353 / 15,683
Pyraminx2.604.82
top 2.5%651 / 28,708
5×555.0159.96
top 3.4%280 / 9,401
Skewb2.826.19
top 4.1%642 / 18,907
Megaminx57.681:00.13
top 8.8%602 / 7,841
3×3 Fewest Moves34 moves—
early days — 3 solves586 / 2,040
Clock21.5941.62
top 69.0%5,954 / 8,927

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

No Place For DNF Spring 2018: 31.99New Hope Open Spring 2018: 18.61Princeton Fall 2018: 12.57CubingUSA New Jersey Championship 2018: 12.31Penn Cube Day Fall 2018: 11.47Princeton Winter 2019: 12.26Lower Moreland Winter 2019: 10.83George School Open 2019: 11.66Brooklyn 2019: 8.65River Hill Spring 2019: 10.48Arcadia Summer 2019: 9.12CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 11.64Ridge Cubing Fall 2019: 7.79Clash at Carlisle Fall 2019: 9.04No Place For DNF Fall 2019: 8.81SBU Fall 2019: 8.53Princeton Winter 2020: 9.54Slow N Steady Winter 2020: 7.40Babylon Fall 2021: 6.80Slow N Steady Fall 2021: 7.17Princeton Spring 2022: 7.01Pennsylvania Championship 2022: 6.90Pretzel Mania 2022: 7.44West Chester Fall 2022: 7.37Troy Story 2023: 7.03CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 6.48Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 6.58Square-Fun in Bloomsburg 2023: 6.87Slow N Steady Fall 2023: 6.63Cumberland County Cubing 2023: 6.51River Hill Fall 2023: 6.79Princeton Fall 2023: 6.05Hudson Valley 2023: 5.80GCU Winter 2024: 6.61Troy Story 2024: 6.64Empire State Winter 2024: 6.34Cubing in Mount Kisco 2024: 6.22PBs in Palisades 2024: 6.62New-Cumberland County 2024: 5.85Happy Valley Spring 2024: 6.02It's About Time Bloomsburg 2024: 6.13Spring into Summit 2024: 6.15New Jersey Championship 2024: 6.65Newark Academy Spring 2024: 6.39Puzzles in Pottsville 2024: 7.19Pennsylvania Championship 2024: 6.52Rubik's North America All-Stars 2024: 7.42Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 6.68CubingUSA New England Championship 2024: 6.42Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 6.33High Five Bloomsburg 2024: 6.96An Afternoon in Nyack 2024: 5.79CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024: 5.63Cumberland County Fall 2024: 5.87Penn Cube Day Fall 2024: 6.53Kisco Cubing 2025: 6.64PBs in Palisades Open 2025: 5.94Penn Cube Day Spring 2025: 5.85PBs in Palisades Spring 2025: 6.85King of Prussia Spring 2025: 6.34American Dream NJ 2025: 6.63UMBC Spring 2025: 5.70Puzzles in Pottsville Spring 2025: 6.58Summit Summer 2025: 6.51Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.74Fort Lee Summer 2025: 5.61Cubing in the Ocean County 2025: 6.87Axemann Summer 2026: 6.69Cape May Summer B 2026: 6.50Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 5.765.6131.997 Apr 20182 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.

  • Carson Widjaja — met in 326 rounds, finished ahead 64 times
  • Shaun Mack — met in 326 rounds, finished ahead 40 times
  • Zach Ridall — met in 274 rounds, finished ahead 205 times

Next targets

  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.61 away.
  • A sub-20 4×4 single — 42 people have one; it is 4.43 away.

Targets move as he improves.