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Andreas Nikolaou

3×3 · top 18.3% of 288,433 all-time · competing since March 2010 · 2010NIKO01

Andreas Nikolaou has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.22, set at Pickering Fall A 2023, puts him in the top 18.3% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,750th in Canada. Across 27 competitions since March 2010, he has put 529 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 64% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.53 in March 2010 to 13.22, a 55% improvement. Andreas has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 18.3% of 288,433 all-time
13.22
signature single · Pickering Fall A 2023
529
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×313.2217.26
top 18.3%1,750 / 10,502
2×23.805.48
top 24.0%1,627 / 7,245
3×3 one-handed27.9532.03
top 41.9%953 / 2,632
4×41:11.171:25.94
top 48.1%1,330 / 3,180
Pyraminx9.6113.02
top 49.9%2,413 / 4,913
Clock17.1021.76
top 55.8%519 / 1,057
Square-139.5950.16
top 64.8%608 / 973
5×52:32.95—
top 67.3%931 / 1,546
Megaminx3:31.65—
top 84.1%1,088 / 1,393
Skewb19.1822.82
top 88.3%2,641 / 2,928
6×66:20.67—
early days — 2 solves599 / 683
7×79:29.83—
early days — 1 solve491 / 519

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

Toronto Open Spring 2010: 29.53canadianCUBING CUBEcentric 2010: 25.08Toronto Open Summer 2010: 20.97Toronto Open Winter 2011: 21.07Canadian Open 2011: 21.06Toronto Spring 2012: 22.91Toronto Summer 2012: 16.41Canadian Open 2013: 17.42CanadianCUBING Fifty 2014: 18.75Toronto Open Winter 2015: 18.13Toronto Open Spring 2015: 19.72Pickering 2017: 18.03Battle of Waterloo 2018: 19.19London Winter A 2023: 17.26Pickering C 2023: 17.61Canadian Championship 2023: 18.15Appleby Summer A 2023: 15.46Appleby Fall A 2023: 16.58Waterloo Favourites Fall 2023: 18.49Pickering Fall A 2023: 13.22Scarborough Fall B 2023: 15.15London Winter 2024: 15.80Appleby Summer 2024: 15.32Kitchener Mini Afternoon 2024: 16.61Pickering Favourites Autumn 2024: 15.23Western Ontario Winter 2025: 15.24Western Ontario Winter 2026: 17.2913.2229.5327 Mar 201014 Mar 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-12 3×3 single — 40,277 people have one; it is 1.22 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 27,049 people have one; it is 0.80 away.

Targets move as he improves.