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Nathan Kon

2×2 · top 0.29% of 189,179 all-time · competing since January 2024 · 2024KONN01

Nathan Kon has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.85, set at Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026, puts him in the top 0.29% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 130th in the United States. Until November 2011, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 29 competitions since January 2024, he has put 1,164 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 63% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.20 in January 2024 to 8.57, a 61% improvement. Nathan has entered 29 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.29% of 189,179 all-time
0.85
signature single · Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026
1,164
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×20.852.18
top 0.29%130 / 41,674
Pyraminx2.615.10
top 2.5%669 / 29,168
3×38.5710.38
top 3.9%2,234 / 60,666
Skewb2.775.51
top 3.9%626 / 19,164
3×3 one-handed15.4918.48
top 9.2%1,241 / 15,900
Clock6.959.47
top 10.6%843 / 9,172
5×51:09.551:16.01
top 11.4%892 / 9,537
4×440.8146.26
top 13.1%1,980 / 19,354
Square-114.2022.01
top 14.6%1,003 / 6,846
Megaminx1:26.031:36.99
top 25.7%1,813 / 8,026
6×62:32.982:39.18
top 27.2%974 / 4,262
7×74:19.195:02.50
top 37.5%1,064 / 3,236

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

Troy Story 2024: 22.20New-Cumberland County 2024: 18.28Saratoga Springs Newcomers 2024: 17.85Empire State Spring Sprint 2024: 15.60New Jersey Championship 2024: 13.38Cubing in the Ocean County 2024: 10.72Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 13.72East Berlin Favorites PA 2024: 9.04Christmas City Cubing PA 2024: 12.36Ashfield Winter Open 2024: 10.65Kisco Cubing 2025: 10.78Pop Off Princeton 2025: 11.51PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025: 9.97PBs in Palisades Winter 2025: 12.77Binghamton Cube Day 2025: 11.33American Dream NJ 2025: 12.37East Berlin Eccentric Blocks PA 2025: 9.71Berwick Spring 2025: 8.71Mystic Cubikon 2025: 10.52Bucks County Cubing AM 2025: 9.40Virginia Championship 2025: 9.62Liberty Science Center Fall A 2025: 9.04Christmas City Cubing PA 2025: 8.57PBs in Palisades Open 2026: 9.74Lodi Solves Spring 2026: 8.95Edgemont Cubing 2026: 10.05Hudson Valley Spring 2026: 9.80Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 9.978.5722.2021 Jan 202414 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.

  • Nico Ozsvath — met in 136 rounds, finished ahead 13 times
  • Rex Ozsvath — met in 131 rounds, finished ahead 17 times
  • Ryan Hughes — met in 115 rounds, finished ahead 10 times

Next targets

  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,497 people have one; it is 0.61 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.57 away.

Targets move as he improves.