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Dylan Nickelsburg

3×3 · top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2022 · 2022NICK01

Dylan Nickelsburg has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.12, set at Empire State ALL11-Stars 2026, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 887th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since April 2022, he has put 676 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.50 in April 2022 to 7.12, a 38% improvement. Dylan has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time
7.12
signature single · Empire State ALL11-Stars 2026
676
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.128.80
top 1.5%887 / 59,724
2×21.833.19
top 3.7%1,475 / 40,951
Pyraminx3.265.11
top 4.5%1,186 / 28,708
4×440.0446.70
top 12.2%1,798 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed17.4820.44
top 13.8%1,786 / 15,683
Skewb4.726.09
top 16.1%2,530 / 18,907
5×51:26.731:37.60
top 24.7%1,921 / 9,401
Clock22.3627.67
top 71.0%6,148 / 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

Slow N Steady Spring 2022: 11.50Empire State Spring 2022: 11.11New York Championship 2022: 12.46Princeton Fall 2022: 13.91New York Yopen 2022: 11.31Empire State Winter Warmup 2023: 10.21Penn Cube Day Spring 2023: 11.42PBs in Palisades 2023: 11.21Westchester Weeknights 4 2023: 11.07CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 10.67Newark's On Track 2023: 10.14Cubes on the Bayside 2023: 10.32Manhattan Mini C 2023: 9.49Empire State Winter 2024: 9.35PBs in Palisades 2024: 8.94NYU Winter 2024: 9.20Edgemont Cubing 2024: 9.16North Jersey Speedsolving A 2024: 8.85Westport Summer 2024: 9.04ALL1- Empire State 2024: 7.96Flushing Glow PM 2024: 9.76Long Island Winter Solstice 2024: 8.75NYU Spring 2025: 8.37Worlds Prep in Palisades 2025: 8.04CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 8.05Brooklyn Waldorf Winter 2025: 7.92Empire State ALL11-Stars 2026: 7.127.1213.912 Apr 20227 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.

  • Evan Liu — met in 96 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
  • Nico Ozsvath — met in 90 rounds, finished ahead 32 times
  • Ayden Dincher — met in 82 rounds, finished ahead 3 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.12 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.83 away.

Targets move as he improves.