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Andrew Nathenson

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 1.5% of 12,294 all-time · competing since May 2011 · 2011NATH02

Andrew Nathenson has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 21 moves, set at FMC Fall San Diego 2022, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 39th in the United States. Across 75 competitions since May 2011, he has put 1,754 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 85% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 50.94 in May 2011 to 8.10, an 84% improvement. Andrew has entered 75 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 1.5% of 12,294 all-time
21 moves
signature single · FMC Fall San Diego 2022
1,754
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 85% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 Fewest Moves21 moves24.00
top 1.5%39 / 2,040
3×3 one-handed10.7813.61
top 1.6%266 / 15,683
3×38.1010.31
top 3.0%1,684 / 59,724
2×22.753.89
top 11.5%4,506 / 40,951
4×442.0047.73
top 14.5%2,169 / 19,072
Pyraminx5.417.99
top 15.8%4,184 / 28,708
Megaminx1:10.441:18.02
top 15.9%1,088 / 7,841
3×3 blindfolded1:17.071:27.12
top 18.5%356 / 2,092
3×3 Multi-Blind8 of 8 cubes · 55:14—
top 24.6%180 / 731
5×51:31.081:49.24
top 28.2%2,215 / 9,401
Square-123.9231.67
top 36.7%2,384 / 6,743
Clock12.4415.17
top 37.1%2,947 / 8,927
Skewb9.3215.13
top 50.6%9,071 / 18,907
6×64:01.154:45.28
top 65.8%2,549 / 4,196
7×76:37.15—
early days — 3 solves2,364 / 3,184
4×4 blindfolded20:15.00—
early days — 2 solves389 / 440

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

San Diego 2011: 50.94Antelope Valley Summer 2012: 17.06Nisei Week 2012: 15.66Caltech Winter Open 2013: 12.30Caltech Spring Open 2013: 15.61San Diego Summer Splash 2013: 14.13World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 16.66Antelope Valley Fall 2013: 13.57Caltech Fall Open 2013: 14.66San Diego Summer Splash 2014: 13.93Newport Cube Day 2014: 14.81Antelope Valley Fall 2014: 14.93Caltech Fall Open 2014: 8.80Newport Winter Open 2014: 12.25Nub Open 2015: 14.09San Diego Summer Splash 2015: 11.28SoCal Supercomp 2015: 11.21Nisei Week 2015: 14.35Irvine Fall 2015: 13.77Caltech Fall 2015: 12.79Caltech Winter 2016: 11.56Newport Spring 2016: 11.35St. Francis II: GYM 2016: 10.59Poly Cubed 2016: 11.37TFTI San Diego 2016: 11.12SoCal Supercomp 2016: 12.19US Nationals 2016: 11.46Newport Fall 2016: 11.492FTI San Diego 2016: 12.06Caltech Winter 2017: 13.14OCSEF Open 2017: 11.50Cerritos Open 2017: 13.01UCSD Summer 2017: 14.86CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 10.71Newport Fall 2017: 11.05TF3I San Diego 2017: 13.29Thanks Four The Invite 2018: 9.05Irvine Winter 2018: 10.60Cerritos Open 2018: 9.71Thanks for the InFive 2018: 10.91A Bruin Cube Day 2018: 9.35CubingUSA Western Championship 2018: 8.82West Coast Cubing Tour - Los Angeles 2018: 9.49CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 9.37Nisei Week 2018: 8.10Anaheim Fall 2018: 9.26Poly Cubed 2018: 9.25Another Bruin Cube Day 2019: 8.55Mudd Winter 2019: 9.87UCSD Winter 2019: 9.70Thousand Oaks Cubing Open 2019: 9.21CubingUSA Western Championship 2019: 10.00San Diego Summer 2019: 10.41Santa Barbara Fall 2019: 11.08Mudd Fall 2019: 10.92Grossmont Fall 2019: 10.41UCSD Winter 2020: 9.25Mudd Winter 2020: 9.548.1050.9428 May 201122 Feb 2020

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-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 0.78 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.10 away.

Targets move as he improves.