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Nathan Liu

Clock · top 2.1% of 32,048 all-time · competing since December 2023 · 2023LIUN02

Nathan Liu has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 3.88, set at Take Your Time Sydney 2025, puts him in the top 2.1% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 27th in Australia. Until June 2015, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since December 2023, he has put 482 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.79 in December 2023 to 9.66, a 30% improvement. Nathan has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 2.1% of 32,048 all-time
3.88
signature single · Take Your Time Sydney 2025
482
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 74% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
Clock3.884.80
top 2.1%27 / 1,095
Skewb2.584.38
top 3.2%110 / 3,534
2×22.133.12
top 5.7%412 / 8,567
Pyraminx3.627.35
top 6.0%265 / 5,993
3×39.6610.70
top 6.5%603 / 11,709
Megaminx56.401:01.72
top 8.1%103 / 1,277
4×439.3141.86
top 11.3%294 / 3,051
Square-112.7527.61
top 11.4%117 / 899
3×3 one-handed20.2123.82
top 21.0%477 / 2,659
5×51:23.801:34.69
top 22.2%298 / 1,356
6×62:33.782:39.35
top 27.5%165 / 641
7×74:41.454:46.32
top 45.0%216 / 523
3×3 Fewest Moves40 moves44.67
top 48.3%216 / 468

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

Sydney Summer 2023: 13.79Tramsheds II: May Sunday 2024: 12.72Tramsheds III: August Saturday 2024: 11.71Cubing at The Cube 2025: 10.39Tramsheds V: Autumn Sunday 2025: 10.58Tramsheds VII: Spring Sunday 2025: 10.49NxNjoyable Sydney Gathering 2026: 9.79Puzzling Parramatta 2026: 10.60Australian Nationals 2026: 9.669.6613.7916 Dec 20239 Jul 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-3 Clock single — 239 people have one; it is 0.88 away.
  • A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.58 away.

Targets move as he improves.