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Nate Minkevich

3×3 · top 1.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2018 · 2018MINK01

Nate Minkevich has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.81, set at San Diego Spring 2022, puts him in the top 1.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 706th in the United States. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 53 competitions since June 2018, he has put 1,196 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 32.75 in July 2018 to 6.81, a 79% improvement. Nate has entered 53 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.1% of 284,439 all-time
6.81
signature single · San Diego Spring 2022
1,196
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.819.68
top 1.1%706 / 59,724
2×21.523.14
top 2.2%888 / 40,951
Clock5.166.65
top 4.8%389 / 8,927
Square-110.1714.81
top 6.4%470 / 6,743
3×3 blindfolded39.6158.97
top 6.7%131 / 2,092
4×436.5644.48
top 8.2%1,242 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed16.3519.53
top 11.0%1,446 / 15,683
Pyraminx4.878.64
top 12.4%3,221 / 28,708
Skewb5.2210.65
top 19.9%3,155 / 18,907
3×3 Multi-Blind9 of 10 cubes · 41:25—
top 21.9%160 / 731
3×3 Fewest Moves34 moves42.00
top 26.7%586 / 2,040
5×51:32.461:42.92
top 29.3%2,310 / 9,401
Megaminx2:01.712:19.92
top 46.7%3,442 / 7,841
6×63:24.633:30.78
top 52.6%1,980 / 4,196
4×4 blindfolded14:41.00—
early days — 2 solves317 / 440
7×78:00.52—
early days — 3 solves2,851 / 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

West Coast Cubing Tour - Los Angeles 2018: 32.75Anaheim Fall 2018: 28.24Another Bruin Cube Day 2019: 34.71CubingUSA Western Championship 2019: 35.53Nisei Week 2019: 25.22Mudd Fall 2019: 17.69Grossmont Fall 2019: 15.12West LA Winter 2020: 14.60Mudd Winter 2020: 15.25CalPoly SLO Fall 2021: 10.12Anaheim Winter B 2022: 7.96San Diego Spring 2022: 6.81Long Beach Spring 2022: 9.40Irvine Summer 2022: 9.54WCC Western Championship 2022: 9.65Cubing for Cancer RPV 2022: 7.97San Diego's Final Cube-Down 2022: 8.83Circle City Turbocharged 2023: 9.64UCSD Spring 2023: 9.31Pride in Long Beach 2023: 9.36CubingUSA Western Championship 2023: 8.14Santa Ana Summer A 2023: 8.17Irvine Fall 2023: 8.49Orange County Newcomers 2024: 8.57CubingUSA Western Championship 2024: 10.34Nub Open Lake Forest 2024: 9.51Agoura Side Events Day 2025: 8.90UCLA Spring 2025: 8.79Let's Cube Long Beach 2025: 8.74West Coast Cubing Tour: San Diego 2025: 8.78West Coast Cubing Tour: Los Angeles 2025: 8.55Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 10.63UCLA Summer 2025: 10.48UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025: 8.87West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2025: 9.58Berkeley Fall 2025: 10.61Mission Viejo Fall 2025: 11.57Super Duper San Diego 2026: 8.71Poly Cubed at Pomona 2026: 9.52Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2026: 9.276.8135.5311 Jul 201819 Apr 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.81 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.52 away.

Targets move as he improves.