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Nate Strout

3×3 · top 6.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2018 · 2018STRO12

Nate Strout has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.75, set at SBU Fall 2019, puts him in the top 6.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,706th in the United States. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since December 2018, he has put 239 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.97 in December 2018 to 9.75, a 19% improvement. Nate has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.8% of 284,439 all-time
9.75
signature single · SBU Fall 2019
239
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.7510.61
top 6.8%3,706 / 59,724
2×22.493.21
top 8.8%3,460 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed16.1321.71
top 10.5%1,386 / 15,683
Pyraminx5.7911.20
top 18.4%4,903 / 28,708
4×457.101:11.07
top 33.2%5,303 / 19,072
Skewb8.9211.33
top 47.9%8,506 / 18,907
Square-11:02.18
early days — 1 solve5,700 / 6,743

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

Penn Cube Day Fall 2018: 11.97Hudson Valley Winter 2019: 11.61CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 11.20SBU Spring 2019: 11.07Empire State Spring 2019: 10.12Brooklyn 2019: 12.32Brooklyn Fall 2019: 11.82SBU Fall 2019: 9.75Liberty Science Center Open 2019: 9.93Babylon Winter 2020: 11.279.7512.328 Dec 201829 Feb 2020

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 1.75 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.49 away.

Targets move as he improves.