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Nathan Nesling

3×3 · top 7.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2017 · 2017NESL02

Nathan Nesling has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.04, set at Guildford Open 2020, puts him in the top 7.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 553rd in the United Kingdom. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since September 2017, he has put 176 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.19 in September 2017 to 10.04, a 42% improvement. Nathan has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.6% of 284,439 all-time
10.04
signature single · Guildford Open 2020
176
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×310.0412.57
top 7.6%553 / 6,689
Pyraminx5.017.91
top 13.2%513 / 3,656
2×22.954.70
top 13.7%836 / 4,895
4×446.8651.59
top 20.6%461 / 2,071
5×51:38.501:46.45
top 34.2%439 / 1,151
3×3 one-handed29.0332.90
top 44.4%785 / 1,851
Square-128.2730.19
top 46.2%410 / 778
Skewb8.7412.09
top 46.7%1,101 / 2,421
3×3 blindfolded8:33.09
early days — 1 solve308 / 311

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

Guildford Open 2017: 17.19Weston-super-Mare Open 2017: 17.04Guildford Open 2018: 12.00Weston-super-Mare Open 2018: 12.49Weston-super-Mare Open 2019: 10.66Guildford Open 2020: 10.0410.0417.1923 Sep 201718 Jan 2020

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.04 away.
  • A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.01 away.

Targets move as he improves.