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Nathan Soria

3×3 · top 0.75% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2012 · 2012SORI01

Nathan Soria has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.38, set at Nisei Week 2016, puts him in the top 0.75% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 489th in the United States. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 54 competitions since February 2012, he has put 2,448 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 58% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.08 in February 2012 to 6.38, a 76% improvement. Nathan has entered 54 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.75% of 284,439 all-time
6.38
signature single · Nisei Week 2016
2,448
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.388.59
top 0.75%489 / 59,724
4×425.9930.54
top 0.98%167 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed10.6812.73
top 1.5%250 / 15,683
2×21.362.59
top 1.6%633 / 40,951
Skewb2.243.97
top 2.0%299 / 18,907
5×554.471:01.30
top 3.2%261 / 9,401
Pyraminx2.884.49
top 3.2%855 / 28,708
6×61:45.361:58.25
top 5.6%194 / 4,196
7×72:44.013:03.50
top 6.4%171 / 3,184
Megaminx56.521:03.98
top 8.2%571 / 7,841
Square-112.7915.94
top 11.4%793 / 6,743
Clock8.9910.35
top 19.9%1,527 / 8,927
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves43.67
top 33.6%738 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded2:35.75—
top 45.1%973 / 2,092

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

Caltech Winter 2012: 27.08Caltech Spring 2012: 17.63Caltech Fall Open 2012: 11.41Caltech Winter Open 2013: 13.44Caltech Spring Open 2013: 11.18World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 10.93Nisei Week 2013: 11.15Caltech Fall Open 2013: 10.93Caltech Winter Open 2014: 10.56Caltech Spring Open 2014: 10.05San Diego Summer Splash 2014: 8.84Newport Cube Day 2014: 9.97Nisei Week 2014: 8.94Antelope Valley Fall 2014: 9.56Caltech Fall Open 2014: 8.72Newport Winter Open 2014: 8.73Nub Open 2015: 8.30St. Francis Winter Open 2015: 8.63Caltech Winter Open 2015: 8.87Orange Coast Puzzle Meet 2015: 9.31SoCal Supercomp 2015: 8.77US Nationals 2015: 8.73Nisei Week 2015: 8.57Irvine Fall 2015: 8.26Caltech Fall 2015: 7.47Nub Open 2016: 8.47Caltech Winter 2016: 6.52Newport Spring 2016: 8.53St. Francis II: GYM 2016: 7.81Poly Cubed 2016: 7.36Nisei Week 2016: 6.38Newport Fall 2016: 7.492FTI San Diego 2016: 7.46Caltech Winter 2017: 7.79Qualifornia 2017: 8.37Cerritos Open 2017: 7.57CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 8.56Nisei Week 2017: 7.38Newport Fall 2017: 7.96Poly Cubed 2017: 8.84Irvine Winter 2018: 7.43Cerritos Open 2018: 7.75West Coast Cubing Tour - Los Angeles 2018: 7.23CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 7.94Nisei Week 2018: 8.79Poly Cubed 2018: 7.53Another Bruin Cube Day 2019: 6.57UCSD Winter 2019: 6.67CubingUSA Western Championship 2019: 7.99Nisei Week 2019: 7.89Grossmont Fall 2019: 7.496.3827.0811 Feb 201214 Dec 2019

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.

  • Michael Young — met in 374 rounds, finished ahead 285 times
  • Shane Grogan — met in 277 rounds, finished ahead 224 times
  • Max Park — met in 239 rounds, finished ahead 47 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.38 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 0.99 away.

Targets move as he improves.