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Nate Garthon

Clock · top 1.1% of 32,048 all-time · competing since September 2022 · 2022GART03

Nate Garthon has been competing for 4 years. Their best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 3.25, set at Big Cube Time Brisbane 2026, puts them in the top 1.1% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 14th in Australia. Until May 2021, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since September 2022, they have put 1,110 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, their 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Their 3×3 best has come down from 15.11 in September 2022 to 8.46, a 44% improvement. Nate has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 1.1% of 32,048 all-time
3.25
signature single · Big Cube Time Brisbane 2026
1,110
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
Clock3.254.69
top 1.1%14 / 1,095
2×21.623.23
top 2.7%220 / 8,567
Skewb2.464.64
top 2.7%95 / 3,534
3×38.4610.73
top 3.7%347 / 11,709
Megaminx55.601:01.69
top 7.7%97 / 1,277
Pyraminx4.025.55
top 7.8%356 / 5,993
4×437.2343.75
top 8.9%231 / 3,051
3×3 one-handed16.6420.29
top 11.7%265 / 2,659
5×51:13.381:16.15
top 14.1%191 / 1,356
3×3 blindfolded1:06.791:38.60
top 15.2%75 / 394
Square-115.3617.46
top 17.2%168 / 899
6×62:38.182:43.32
top 29.8%176 / 641
7×74:09.484:29.77
top 34.2%158 / 523
4×4 blindfolded8:36.60—
early days — 2 solves47 / 96
3×3 Multi-Blind6 of 9 cubes · 59:27—
early days — 2 solves109 / 180
5×5 blindfolded24:53.00—
early days — 1 solve41 / 51
3×3 Fewest Moves52 moves—
early days — 2 solves371 / 468

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

Runaway Bay Saturday Challenge 2022: 15.11Brisbane Summer 2023: 22.17Queensland Open 2023: 19.27Australian Nationals 2023: 14.73QUT Qube Challenge Saturday 2023: 15.25Brisbane Summer 2024: 13.06Queensland Open 2024: 12.34Chilling in Toowoomba 2024: 10.29MarsdeNxN 2024: 11.38Coffs Big Banana Bonanza 2024: 10.77Speedy Southport 2024: 8.46Brisbane Summer 2025: 11.58Brisbane Newcomers 2025: 10.43QLD State Championship 2025: 10.72Wide Bay Cubing 2025: 11.03Coffs Big Banana Bonanza 2025: 9.88Australian Nationals 2025: 9.67Cube Against Cancer Brisbane 2026: 10.14Australian Nationals 2026: 10.138.4622.173 Sep 20229 Jul 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 their.

Next targets

  • A sub-3 Clock single — 239 people have one; it is 0.25 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.62 away.

Targets move as they improves.