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Nate Farach

3×3 · top 3.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022FARA03

Nate Farach has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.35, set at Oregon Championship 2025, puts him in the top 3.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,939th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since October 2022, he has put 471 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.65 in October 2022 to 8.35, a 53% improvement. Nate has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.4% of 284,439 all-time
8.35
signature single · Oregon Championship 2025
471
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.3510.89
top 3.4%1,939 / 59,724
2×21.772.85
top 3.4%1,339 / 40,951
Clock6.639.47
top 9.6%738 / 8,927
Pyraminx4.406.02
top 9.7%2,514 / 28,708
Skewb5.347.42
top 20.8%3,320 / 18,907
4×450.7258.11
top 25.6%3,950 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed22.3128.66
top 26.9%3,468 / 15,683
Megaminx1:28.121:44.60
top 27.0%1,857 / 7,841
5×51:39.741:58.06
top 35.2%2,795 / 9,401
3×3 blindfolded2:37.86—
early days — 3 solves983 / 2,092
Square-129.3135.31
top 48.1%3,138 / 6,743
6×64:22.73—
early days — 2 solves2,873 / 4,196
7×79:17.91—
early days — 1 solve3,079 / 3,184
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 4 cubes · 35:50—
early days — 1 solve716 / 731

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

New Kent On The Block 2022: 17.65Bothell Spring Open 2023: 19.79Kent Spring 2023: 18.21Kent Summer 2023: 15.35Tacoma Winter Twisters 2024: 14.22Lakewood Newcomers 2024: 13.99Kent Spring 2024: 11.28Husky Pride Seattle 2024: 12.14Tacoma Summer 2024: 10.22Kent Summer 2024: 10.76Lakewood Fall 2024: 9.80Oregon Championship 2025: 8.35Dawgs at Denny UW 2026: 9.62Kent Spring 2026: 9.28Northwest Championship 2026: 9.918.3519.7915 Oct 202221 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.35 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.77 away.

Targets move as he improves.