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Jacob Nokes

5×5 · top 0.074% of 40,792 all-time · competing since May 2017 · 2017NOKE01

Jacob Nokes has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 5×5: a personal-best single of 38.27, set at Naperville Mini II 2025, puts him in the top 0.074% of the 40,792 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6th in the United States. Until April 2018, no official 5×5 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 86 competitions since May 2017, he has put 4,649 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.75 in May 2017 to 5.13, a 77% improvement. Jacob has entered 86 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

5×5
best event — top 0.074% of 40,792 all-time
38.27
signature single · Naperville Mini II 2025
4,649
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
5×538.2744.26
top 0.074%6 / 9,401
3×35.136.66
top 0.15%103 / 59,724
6×61:11.511:23.16
top 0.17%9 / 4,196
4×422.8026.44
top 0.29%51 / 19,072
7×71:56.312:04.21
top 0.4%15 / 3,184
Square-16.458.67
top 1.1%90 / 6,743
2×21.292.34
top 1.3%553 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed11.1813.09
top 2.0%323 / 15,683
Pyraminx2.494.14
top 2.2%572 / 28,708
Megaminx45.1351.13
top 3.1%228 / 7,841
Skewb2.655.53
top 3.5%535 / 18,907
Clock4.906.38
top 4.2%338 / 8,927
3×3 Fewest Moves38 moves40.33
top 40.9%879 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded3:14.64—
top 56.5%1,205 / 2,092

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

Minnesota Cube Melt 2017: 22.75Fargo Fall 2017: 14.17South Dakota First 2018: 9.25Cubetcha 2018: 9.67Fargo Fall 2018: 9.34Race the Clock 2018: 9.23Minnesota Cube Melt 2019: 7.603x3 Only Minnesota 2019: 8.28Sioux Fall 2019: 8.15Cubetcha 2019: 7.65Fargo Fall 2019: 7.39Mega Minnesota Winter 2019: 7.31North Star Cubing Challenge 2020: 7.90Cubetcha A 2021: 6.57Sioux Falls Winter 2021: 6.59Pikes Peak Good Morning 2022: 6.52CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2022: 6.07Colorado Cubing Weekend 2022: 6.58Cubing for Charity Colorado 2022: 5.91Pueblo Puzzling 2022: 6.87CO Solving in Fall for All 2022: 6.66Summit Big Cube Showdown 2022: 6.89Loveland Fall 2022: 6.60LoCo Cubing AM 2022: 6.93Bundle Up Broomfield 2023: 6.97Happy Crew Cubing CO 2023: 7.05Mile High Megacomp 2023: 5.95Don't be Fooled Colorado 2023: 6.25Colorado Waffle Jostle 2023: 5.61Cubing In Creek 2023: 6.53Colorado Mountain Tour - Golden 2023: 5.81Colorado Mountain Tour - Frisco 2023: 6.71Colorado Mountain Tour - Avon 2023: 6.52Summer Solving Colorado 2023: 6.44FoCo Cubing 2023: 5.68Don't Fall Off Pikes Peak 2023: 6.33CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 6.58Colorado Jungle Jumble 2023: 5.38Centennial State Cube-Off 2023: 5.23Rocky Mountain Warm-Up 2023: 6.91CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2023: 5.68Colorado Cold Hands Showdown 2023: 6.18USAFA Flyby Cubing 2023: 6.13Happy Holidays Colorado 2023: 6.31DeNxNver 2024: 6.50Barely Awake Boulder 2024: 6.67Oredigger Open 2024: 6.74Cherry on Top Colorado PM 2024: 6.55Pretzel Mania Denver 2024: 5.95Colorado Mountain Tour - Evergreen 2024: 6.55Colorado Mountain Tour - Frisco 2024: 6.38Colorado Mountain Tour - Avon 2024: 5.99Colorado Mountain Tour - Glenwood Springs 2024: 6.29Colorado Mountain Tour - Grand Junction 2024: 6.23CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2024: 5.91Rubik's North America All-Stars 2024: 5.91Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 5.83Back to School Colorado 2024: 6.67Colorado Championship 2024: 6.62Denver Dash 2024: 6.14Centennial State Cube Off 2024: 5.15Winter Warmup CO 2025: 5.92A Little Fun in Littleton Colorado 2025: 6.10DeNxNver 2025: 5.19Happy Crew CO 2025: 6.89Pueblo Puzzling 2025: 5.30Colorado Springs Spring 2025: 5.86Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.36Colorado Springs Summer 2025: 5.13CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2025: 6.71FoCo Open 2025: 5.69Rocky Mountain Championship 2025: 5.23Rubik's x TheCubicle CubingUSA All-Stars 2025: 6.38Oredigger Fall CO 2025: 6.96Super Duper San Diego 2026: 5.49DeNxNver 2026: 5.93Oredigger Open CO 2026: 5.87Unorthodox Blocks 5 CO 2026: 6.07Pi Day Cubing CO 2026: 6.03Wyominx 2026: 5.98Colorado Springs Spring 2026: 6.87Mesa County Mixup 2026: 5.51Cube Against Cancer Colorado 2026: 5.94Rocky Mountain Championship 2026: 6.235.1322.756 May 201721 Aug 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-30 5×5 single — 1 people have one; it is 8.27 away.
  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.13 away.

Targets move as he improves.