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Nicholas Dorcas
Pyraminx · top 6.0% of 129,321 all-time · competing since September 2022 · 2022DORC04
Nicholas Dorcas has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 3.62, set at Westview Cubing Favorites 2025, puts him in the top 6.0% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,531st in the United States. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since September 2022, he has put 374 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 89% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 35.85 in September 2022 to 14.56, a 59% improvement. Nicholas has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 3.62 | 8.17 | top 6.0% | 1,531 / 28,708 | |
| 3×3 | 14.56 | 22.58 | top 22.9% | 12,413 / 59,724 | |
| Clock | 9.71 | 10.76 | top 23.7% | 1,814 / 8,927 | |
| Megaminx | 1:35.22 | 1:39.87 | top 31.5% | 2,228 / 7,841 | |
| Skewb | 6.76 | 8.27 | top 31.8% | 5,273 / 18,907 | |
| 2×2 | 5.16 | 9.69 | top 41.3% | 16,613 / 40,951 | |
| 4×4 | 1:21.59 | 1:34.81 | top 57.2% | 9,874 / 19,072 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 38.27 | 51.55 | top 62.8% | 8,872 / 15,683 | |
| 5×5 | 2:49.76 | — | top 74.5% | 6,630 / 9,401 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 19 Oct 2024Three personal bests in one day at UCSB Cubing 2024.
- 5 Aug 2023First sub-20 3×3: 14.56 at UCSD Summer 2023.
- 5 Aug 2023First sub-15 3×3: 14.56 at UCSD Summer 2023.
- 5 Aug 2023Four personal bests in one day at UCSD Summer 2023.
- 3 Jun 2023Four personal bests in one day at UCSD For Hemophilia 2023.
- 4 Mar 2023Five personal bests in one day at Marshall Cubing Spring 2023.
Competitions
- Westview Cubing Favorites 2025 · 1 Jun 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2025 · 30 Mar 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- UCSB Cubing 2024 · 19 Oct 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Western Championship 2024 · 2 Aug 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- San Diego Newcomers 2024 · 16 Mar 2024
- Poway Cubing Winter 2024 · 20 Jan 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- UCSD Winter 2023 · 16 Dec 2023 — 1 personal best set
- UCSD Summer 2023 · 5 Aug 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Rialto Cubing Summer 2023 · 8 Jul 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Poway Summer Cubing 2023 · 18 Jun 2023 — 1 personal best set
- UCSD For Hemophilia 2023 · 3 Jun 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Westview Cubing Favorites 2023 · 27 May 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Marshall Cubing Spring 2023 · 4 Mar 2023 — 5 personal bests set
- Oak Valley Winter A 2023 · 25 Feb 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Cozy Cubing Poway 2023 · 29 Jan 2023 — 1 personal best set
- San Diego's Final Cube-Down 2022 · 31 Dec 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Circle City Supercharged 2022 · 19 Nov 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Marshall Cubing September 2022 · 24 Sep 2022
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.
- August Barnard — met in 62 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
- Alejandro Gutierrez — met in 58 rounds, finished ahead 22 times
- Nathaniel Dorcas — met in 57 rounds, finished ahead 6 times · head to head
Next targets
- A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.62 away.
- A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.56 away.
Targets move as he improves.