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Nate Abeleda

3×3 · top 0.46% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2023 · 2023ABEL07

Nate Abeleda has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.96, set at Minxville Indiana 2025, puts him in the top 0.46% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 304th in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since December 2023, he has put 1,033 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 52% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 7.77 in December 2023 to 5.96, a 23% improvement. Nate has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.46% of 284,439 all-time
5.96
signature single · Minxville Indiana 2025
1,033
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.967.33
top 0.46%304 / 59,724
2×21.042.50
top 0.64%266 / 40,951
Pyraminx2.474.19
top 2.1%560 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed11.6813.71
top 2.6%414 / 15,683
4×443.7652.27
top 16.7%2,534 / 19,072
Skewb5.387.87
top 21.1%3,369 / 18,907
Megaminx1:37.761:50.13
top 33.2%2,354 / 7,841
Clock14.1317.44
top 44.4%3,568 / 8,927
5×52:09.802:35.11
top 55.3%4,671 / 9,401

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

The Core of Hobart 2023: 7.77Megamania in Louisville 2024: 9.49Gem City First in Flight 2024: 6.23Bloomington Open 2024: 8.50Little Giant Open 2024: 7.73Circle City Cubing 2024: 8.12Cincinnati Speed Solving 2024: 7.04Minxville Indiana 2024: 6.80Northern Kentucky 2024: 7.39Lincoln Library Cubing 2024: 6.90Oldham County Cubing 2024: 6.66CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2024: 6.53Flex in Lex 2024: 7.23WonderLand Education West Lafayette Fall 2024: 7.07Swoop in and Solve Oxford 2024: 7.15Indiana Championship 2024: 7.62Gem City Ohio Showdown 2025: 6.54Return of the Ville KY 2025: 6.65Cincinnati Speed Solving 2025: 7.06Chicagoland Newcomers 2025: 6.73Southern Indiana Qualifier 2025: 6.83South Bend Scramble 2025: 6.90Northern Kentucky 2025: 6.08Fun in Muncie 2025: 6.89Minxville Indiana 2025: 5.96Hancock County Summer 2025: 7.615.969.493 Dec 202330 Aug 2025

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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.96 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.04 away.

Targets move as he improves.