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Nadia Hou

3×3 · top 1.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2024 · 2024HOUN01

Nadia Hou has been competing for 3 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.68, set at Queensland Open 2026, puts her in the top 1.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 113th in Australia. Until January 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since February 2024, she has put 629 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 31.27 in February 2024 to 6.68, a 79% improvement. Nadia has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.0% of 284,439 all-time
6.68
signature single · Queensland Open 2026
629
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×36.688.79
top 1.0%113 / 11,709
Pyraminx2.293.08
top 1.7%85 / 5,993
2×21.803.54
top 3.6%283 / 8,567
Square-110.2313.09
top 6.5%68 / 899
3×3 one-handed17.1720.90
top 13.0%296 / 2,659
Skewb4.516.76
top 14.5%382 / 3,534
4×446.5951.67
top 20.3%499 / 3,051
Clock9.5812.96
top 23.0%259 / 1,095
Megaminx1:22.961:30.09
top 23.7%288 / 1,277
5×51:57.332:04.92
top 47.6%640 / 1,356
6×64:29.21—
early days — 3 solves468 / 641
7×79:06.45—
early days — 3 solves478 / 523

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

Brisbane Summer 2024: 31.27Queensland Open 2024: 15.33MarsdeNxN 2024: 11.53Speedy Southport 2024: 11.86Brisbane Summer 2025: 10.66QLD State Championship 2025: 8.89Toowoomba Twist Off 2025: 9.56Australian Nationals 2025: 7.52Speedy Southport 2025: 8.54Cubing at The Cube 2026: 9.32Cube Against Cancer Brisbane 2026: 8.31Wide Bay Cubing 2026: 8.07Queensland Open 2026: 6.68Toowoomba Carnival of Cubing 2026: 8.776.6831.273 Feb 20248 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.68 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.29 away.

Targets move as she improves.