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Nathan Nairn

Pyraminx · top 0.81% of 130,891 all-time · competing since May 2019 · 2019NAIR04

Nathan Nairn has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.79, set at Adelaide Autumn 2026, puts him in the top 0.81% of the 130,891 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 46th in Australia. Until April 2012, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since May 2019, he has put 682 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 75% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.31 in May 2019 to 9.34, a 56% improvement. Nathan has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.81% of 130,891 all-time
1.79
signature single · Adelaide Autumn 2026
682
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
Pyraminx1.793.15
top 0.81%46 / 6,109
2×21.834.20
top 3.8%297 / 8,727
3×39.3412.36
top 5.7%526 / 11,943
Skewb3.507.32
top 7.8%216 / 3,589
Clock6.297.72
top 8.2%106 / 1,159
4×439.3743.43
top 11.4%301 / 3,108
5×51:25.441:35.71
top 23.8%330 / 1,412
3×3 one-handed22.6825.98
top 28.0%632 / 2,685
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves42.33
top 33.6%157 / 474
Square-122.5228.05
top 33.6%328 / 920
6×63:19.973:28.39
top 50.6%320 / 667
7×75:12.495:23.56
top 54.7%277 / 540
Megaminx2:45.97—
top 68.7%913 / 1,313

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

Koalafication Adelaide 2019: 21.31Adelaide Summer 2020: 17.80Adelaide Twin Sunday 2021: 12.58SA State Championship 2021: 12.04Adelaide Summer 2022: 11.00Adelaide Autumn 2022: 12.67Clare Valley Cubing 2022: 11.37South Australian Open 2022: 11.39Adelaide Summer 2023: 11.75Adelaide Winter Sunday 2023: 11.45South Australian Open 2023: 10.01Mildura Madness 2023: 11.15Unley Spring 2024: 9.34All Welcome Adelaide 2025: 10.73Adelaide Autumn 2026: 11.019.3421.314 May 201912 Apr 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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.79 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.83 away.

Targets move as he improves.