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Nat Baylon

2×2 · top 0.55% of 186,767 all-time · competing since April 2010 · 2010BAYL01

Nat Baylon has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.00, set at NovaCube 2018, puts him in the top 0.55% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 229th in the United States. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 34 competitions since April 2010, he has put 1,062 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 80% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.55 in April 2010 to 8.88, a 55% improvement. Nat has entered 34 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.55% of 186,767 all-time
1.00
signature single · NovaCube 2018
1,062
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 80% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.004.69
top 0.55%229 / 40,951
3×38.8810.84
top 4.6%2,551 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed16.3819.15
top 11.1%1,459 / 15,683
4×445.2450.88
top 18.6%2,816 / 19,072
Pyraminx6.6614.82
top 25.1%6,857 / 28,708
5×51:37.311:47.66
top 33.3%2,646 / 9,401
6×63:41.543:53.05
top 59.2%2,270 / 4,196
Square-137.0643.93
top 61.4%4,048 / 6,743
7×75:41.705:55.23
top 63.0%1,886 / 3,184

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

Baltimore Spring competition 2010: 19.55River Hill Fall 2010: 14.52Washington DC Winter 2011: 12.09River Hill Spring 2011: 11.91Princeton Fall 2011: 12.68River Hill Winter 2012: 11.75St. Joseph's College Winter 2012: 11.88River Hill Summer 2012: 11.71Chesapeake Science Point Fall 2012: 10.93River Hill Winter 2013: 10.27Chesapeake Science Point Spring 2013: 11.77World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 10.16Chesapeake Science Point Fall 2013: 10.94Slow 'n Steady Fall 2013: 11.19River Hill Winter 2014: 8.88Princeton Winter 2014: 10.29US Nationals 2014: 12.93River Hill Winter 2015: 11.01Johns Hopkins Winter 2015: 13.08Chesapeake Science Point Spring 2015: 11.15Slow n Steady Spring 2015: 10.60Slow n Steady Fall 2015: 9.97ODU Big Blue Open 2015: 10.48Virginia Open Fall 2015: 10.00River Hill Fall 2015: 10.14Red Cross Cubing Open 2016: 11.24Slow N Steady Winter 2016: 10.25Princeton Winter 2016: 9.93Severna Park Spring 2016: 9.85Slow N Steady Spring 2017: 9.57Slow N Steady Winter 2018: 11.13NovaCube 2018: 11.01River Hill Spring 2018: 10.47Fuengirola Cubea 2018: 9.468.8819.5518 Apr 201010 Nov 2018

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.88 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 1.38 away.

Targets move as he improves.