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Nathan Cho

3×3 · top 3.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2017 · 2017CHON07

Nathan Cho has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.35, set at DFW Cubing Fiesta July 2018, 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 13 competitions since July 2017, he has put 469 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.08 in July 2017 to 8.35, a 31% improvement. Nathan has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.4% of 284,439 all-time
8.35
signature single · DFW Cubing Fiesta July 2018
469
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.3510.26
top 3.4%1,939 / 59,724
2×22.384.42
top 7.8%3,062 / 40,951
Pyraminx4.065.32
top 8.0%2,038 / 28,708
5×51:11.781:22.62
top 12.9%993 / 9,401
4×442.6846.57
top 15.3%2,310 / 19,072
Skewb4.778.22
top 16.4%2,593 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed20.7425.49
top 22.5%2,892 / 15,683
6×62:52.353:07.64
top 37.2%1,348 / 4,196
7×74:34.315:00.20
top 42.6%1,221 / 3,184
Square-131.1541.10
top 51.4%3,370 / 6,743
3×3 Fewest Moves53 moves
early days — 1 solve1,726 / 2,040

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

Southern Championships 2017: 12.08Wake Up Late 2017: 11.88Yeehaw 2017: 11.60Parity for Charity 2017: 11.04CubingUSA Southern Championship 2018: 9.44Dallas Fort Worth 2018: 10.23DFW Cubing Fiesta June 2018: 8.94DFW Cubing Fiesta July 2018: 8.35DFW Cubing Fiesta August 2018: 9.06Oklahoma Fall 2018: 9.183x3x3 Cube Frisco 2019: 8.73Oklahoma Spring 2019: 9.15CubingUSA Southern Championship 2019: 9.228.3512.0815 Jul 20171 Jun 2019

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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.38 away.

Targets move as he improves.