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Nicholas Archer

3×3 one-handed · top 0.0068% of 73,695 all-time · competing since January 2020 · 2020ARCH01

Nicholas Archer has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 6.05, set at Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.0068% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in the United Kingdom. Until June 2024, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 58 competitions since January 2020, he has put 2,564 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.13 in January 2020 to 5.51, a 68% improvement. Nicholas has entered 58 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.0068% of 73,695 all-time
6.05
signature single · Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025
2,564
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×3 one-handed6.057.95
top 0.0068%1 / 1,851
2×20.801.60
top 0.23%21 / 4,895
3×35.516.34
top 0.25%26 / 6,689
4×424.9929.55
top 0.7%25 / 2,071
5×546.7255.85
top 0.98%17 / 1,151
6×61:36.841:43.01
top 3.3%19 / 548
7×72:46.212:50.26
top 6.9%32 / 459
Pyraminx6.8111.65
top 26.3%1,039 / 3,656
Square-122.2126.44
top 32.9%296 / 778
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves—
early days — 1 solve142 / 372
Skewb8.9911.03
top 48.3%1,138 / 2,421
Clock16.0019.30
top 51.9%680 / 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 2020: 17.13Doncaster Open 2020: 15.85Manchester Open 2020: 12.71Wakefield Open 2022: 7.93Weston-super-Mare Open 2022: 7.17Farnworth Spring B 2022: 7.33Wakefield Spring 2022: 7.67Stevenage Summer 2022: 6.77Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 7.36Lincoln Summer 2022: 7.52August Bank Holiday Cheltenham 2022: 6.79Droitwich Spa Autumn 2022: 7.17Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 6.78Stevenage January 2023: 6.88Glasgow Winter 2023: 6.91Essex Spring 2023: 6.32Stevenage June 2023: 5.98Edinburgh Summer 2023: 6.15Bolton Summer 2023: 6.67Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 6.68Glasgow Autumn 2023: 6.50Wakefield Autumn 2023: 5.97Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 6.03Stevenage November 2023: 6.60Manchester Winter 2024: 6.29Edinburgh Winter 2024: 5.94Glasgow Spring 2024: 6.23Stevenage Newcomers Saturday 2024: 6.20Crewe Spring 2024: 6.66Edinburgh Summer Open 2024: 6.18Bolton Summer 2024: 6.04Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 5.90Stevenage August 2024: 5.83Kewbz UK Open 2024: 5.74Stevenage Beginners September A 2024: 5.86Leicestershire Autumn 2024: 6.13Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 6.08Crewe Favourites 2025: 6.23Stevenage January 2025: 5.53Crewe Winter 2025: 6.51Manchester February 2025: 6.06Leeds Spring 2025: 5.71Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 5.99Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 5.51Stevenage 10th Anniversary 2025: 5.89Leeds Spring 2026: 5.73Stevenage May 2026: 5.98Manchester Cubing League - Final 2026: 5.85Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 6.32York Summer 2026: 5.81Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 5.955.5117.1318 Jan 202028 Aug 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-6 3×3 one-handed single — 4 people have one; it is 0.05 away.
  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.51 away.

Targets move as he improves.