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Nathan Orwick

3×3 · top 14.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2016 · 2016ORWI01

Nathan Orwick has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.30, set at FoCo Cubing 2023, puts him in the top 14.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7,985th in the United States. Across 7 competitions since September 2016, he has put 184 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.12 in September 2016 to 12.30, a 24% improvement. Nathan has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 14.9% of 284,439 all-time
12.30
signature single · FoCo Cubing 2023
184
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×312.3014.00
top 14.9%7,985 / 59,724
2×23.205.07
top 16.6%6,516 / 40,951
4×450.6757.37
top 25.5%3,932 / 19,072
Skewb6.609.88
top 30.5%5,027 / 18,907
Pyraminx9.2912.16
top 47.3%13,642 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed32.8836.88
top 53.1%7,341 / 15,683
3×3 blindfolded5:06.16
early days — 1 solve1,665 / 2,092
Clock29.7532.70
top 84.0%7,468 / 8,927
Square-11:00.85
early days — 2 solves5,642 / 6,743

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

Utah Fall Championship 2016: 16.12Longmont Cube Open 2017: 14.78Colorado Qualifier 2018: 13.72BeCubed Summer 2018: 12.60Rocky Mountain Spring 2019: 13.24Olde Town Parker 2020: 12.93FoCo Cubing 2023: 12.3012.3016.1210 Sep 20161 Jul 2023

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.30 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.20 away.

Targets move as he improves.