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Espen Nybråten

3×3 · top 92.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2024 · 2024NYBR01

Espen Nybråten has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 1:01.78, set at Sandnes Winter 2025, puts him in the top 92.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,443rd in Norway. Across 5 competitions since September 2024, he has put 43 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 20% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:21.36 in September 2024 to 1:01.78, a 24% improvement. Espen has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 92.2% of 284,439 all-time
1:01.78
signature single · Sandnes Winter 2025
43
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNorway
3×31:01.781:16.39
top 92.2%1,443 / 1,609
2×220.8137.15
top 96.1%1,138 / 1,202

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

Sandnes Open 2024: 1:21.36Stavanger Open 2024: 1:22.69Sandnes Winter 2025: 1:01.78Sandnes Open 2025: 1:12.57Stavanger Open 2025: 1:03.871:01.781:22.6928 Sep 202429 Nov 2025

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

  • 28 Sep 2024First competition: Sandnes Open 2024. A 1:21.36 3×3 single to start from.

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-1:00 3×3 single — 260,367 people have one; it is 1.78 away.
  • A sub-20 2×2 single — 178,436 people have one; it is 0.81 away.

Targets move as he improves.