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Nathan Leung
3×3 · top 3.7% of 288,433 all-time · competing since April 2025 · 2025LEUN03
Nathan Leung has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.47, set at Berkeley Fall 2026, puts him in the top 3.7% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,120th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since April 2025, he has put 301 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 93% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.10 in April 2025 to 8.47, a 65% improvement. Nathan has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 8.47 | 9.54 | top 3.7% | 2,120 / 60,666 | |
| 2×2 | 1.87 | 2.35 | top 4.0% | 1,600 / 41,674 | |
| 4×4 | 38.50 | 45.62 | top 10.4% | 1,567 / 19,354 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.06 | 6.64 | top 13.5% | 3,604 / 29,168 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 20.09 | 20.64 | top 20.8% | 2,689 / 15,900 | |
| Square-1 | 18.01 | 25.59 | top 23.4% | 1,564 / 6,846 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 1 Mar 2026First sub-10 3×3: 8.80 at Berkeley Favorites 2026.
- 1 Mar 2026Three personal bests in one day at Berkeley Favorites 2026.
- 28 Sep 2025Three personal bests in one day at SacCubing XXI 2025.
- 2 Aug 2025First sub-15 3×3: 13.79 at Davis Summer 2025.
- 24 May 2025First sub-20 3×3: 18.20 at Belmont Spring 2025.
- 6 Apr 2025First competition: Davis Spring 2025. A 24.10 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Berkeley Fall 2026 · 11 Oct 2026 — 1 personal best set
- SacCubing XXIV 2026 · 20 Sep 2026
- Bay Area Speedcubin' 69 2026 · 29 Aug 2026
- Mountain House Open 2026 · 18 Jul 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Belmont Spring 2026 · 2 May 2026
- Berkeley Spring 2026 · 26 Apr 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Duper Super Davis Spring 2026 · 19 Apr 2026
- Berkeley Favorites 2026 · 1 Mar 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Davis Winter 2026 · 7 Feb 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- SacCubing XXII 2026 · 18 Jan 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Bay Area Speedcubin' 68 - Belmont 2025 · 13 Dec 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Cool Down Berkeley 2025 · 2 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Berkeley Fall 2025 · 4 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- SacCubing XXI 2025 · 28 Sep 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Davis Summer 2025 · 2 Aug 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Belmont Spring 2025 · 24 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Davis Spring 2025 · 6 Apr 2025
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.
- Sebastian Stone — met in 47 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Bowen Deng (邓博文) — met in 46 rounds, finished ahead 27 times
- Chris Martin — met in 42 rounds, finished ahead 39 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.47 away.
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.87 away.
Targets move as he improves.