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Nathan Liang

3×3 · top 4.0% of 288,433 all-time · competing since May 2016 · 2016LIAN09

Nathan Liang has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.62, set at Ottawa Side Events B 2025, puts him in the top 4.0% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 391st in Canada. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since May 2016, he has put 473 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 61% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.58 in May 2016 to 8.62, a 19% improvement. Nathan has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.0% of 288,433 all-time
8.62
signature single · Ottawa Side Events B 2025
473
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×38.6210.71
top 4.0%391 / 10,502
4×432.6535.65
top 4.7%113 / 3,180
2×22.584.35
top 9.8%646 / 7,245
5×51:07.261:12.48
top 9.9%122 / 1,546
Pyraminx4.528.96
top 10.3%379 / 4,913
6×62:07.042:12.97
top 14.2%67 / 683
3×3 one-handed17.6821.08
top 14.3%310 / 2,632
Skewb4.618.61
top 15.3%331 / 2,928
Megaminx1:11.481:17.89
top 16.6%145 / 1,393
Square-116.8420.81
top 20.7%175 / 973
7×73:39.323:55.28
top 23.2%96 / 519

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

National Capital Region 2016: 10.58National Capital Region 2017: 10.42National Capital Region 2018: 10.05National Capital Region A 2023: 10.03NCR Favourites 2023: 9.57Ottawa 3x3x3 Winter C 2024: 9.57Ottawa Spring 2024: 9.14Ottawa Spring 2025: 9.00Ottawa Side Events B 2025: 8.62Ottawa Spring 2026: 9.61Ottawa Side Events A 2026: 9.428.6210.5821 May 201618 Oct 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-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.62 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,465 people have one; it is 2.65 away.

Targets move as he improves.