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Nathan Olano

Pyraminx · top 0.17% of 129,321 all-time · competing since March 2018 · 2018OLAN01

Nathan Olano has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.24, set at Rubik's UK Championship 2024, puts him in the top 0.17% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7th in the United Kingdom. Until January 2018, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 31 competitions since March 2018, he has put 1,467 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.12 in March 2018 to 7.91, a 69% improvement. Nathan has entered 31 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.17% of 129,321 all-time
1.24
signature single · Rubik's UK Championship 2024
1,467
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
Pyraminx1.242.38
top 0.17%7 / 3,656
3×37.919.49
top 2.6%211 / 6,689
2×21.722.95
top 3.2%236 / 4,895
Skewb3.184.92
top 5.9%132 / 2,421
3×3 one-handed15.3617.72
top 8.8%179 / 1,851
4×438.4143.35
top 10.2%239 / 2,071
5×51:20.041:38.66
top 19.1%252 / 1,151
3×3 blindfolded1:45.47—
top 28.5%127 / 311
Clock11.1412.84
top 30.8%406 / 1,232

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 2018: 25.12Hastings Open 2018: 20.90Peterborough Open 2018: 25.65August Bank Holiday Competition 2018: 21.18UK Championship 2018: 14.24Cambridge Open 2018: 22.78London Open 2019: 16.50High Wycombe Open 2019: 14.29UK Championship 2019: 14.08Stevenage Spring 2022: 12.91Stevenage Summer 2022: 10.24Stevenage Autumn B 2022: 11.89East London Autumn 2022: 10.57Stevenage January 2023: 10.01Brent Cross Winter 2023: 10.05Essex Spring 2023: 9.15Reading Spring 2023: 8.93Stevenage May 2023: 9.44Suffolk Summer 2023: 9.36Stevenage July 2023: 8.80Harrow Autumn 2023: 9.02Stevenage September 2023: 10.02Kent Autumn 2023: 8.68Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 9.51Stevenage Newcomers Sunday 2024: 8.69Stevenage April 2024: 8.45Stevenage June 2024: 10.47Stevenage July 2024: 8.52Stevenage August 2024: 7.91Battersea Autumn 2024: 9.11Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 8.717.9125.6517 Mar 20181 Nov 2024

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.

  • Adam Swaine — met in 171 rounds, finished ahead 113 times
  • Ben Stokes — met in 166 rounds, finished ahead 16 times
  • Fabio Schwandt — met in 163 rounds, finished ahead 18 times

Next targets

  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.24 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.91 away.

Targets move as he improves.