People · United States
Nicholas Negoita
2×2 · top 7.8% of 189,179 all-time · competing since June 2024 · 2024NEGO02
Nicholas Negoita has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.38, set at New York Championship 2024, puts him in the top 7.8% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,122nd in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since June 2024, he has put 439 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.14 in June 2024 to 15.39, a 20% improvement. Nicholas has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 2.38 | 4.75 | top 7.8% | 3,122 / 41,674 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.15 | 8.76 | top 14.1% | 3,767 / 29,168 | |
| 3×3 | 15.39 | 18.56 | top 25.8% | 14,280 / 60,666 | |
| Skewb | 8.15 | 10.74 | top 42.5% | 7,528 / 19,164 | |
| 4×4 | 1:28.84 | — | top 62.8% | 11,141 / 19,354 | |
| Megaminx | 2:47.38 | — | top 69.3% | 5,457 / 8,026 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 1:23.93 | — | early days — 1 solve | 14,660 / 15,900 |
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
- 8 Jun 2024First competition: Puzzles in Pottsville 2024. A 21.66 3×3 single to start from.
- 8 Jun 2024First sub-20 3×3: 19.14 at Puzzles in Pottsville 2024.
Competitions
- Hazlet Fall 2026 · 11 Oct 2026
- Mid-Atlantic Warm-Up 2026 · 9 Aug 2026
- Ephrata Spring 2026 · 11 Apr 2026
- Ephrata Fall 2025 · 27 Sep 2025
- CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025 · 30 Aug 2025
- Saratoga Springs Summer 2025 · 26 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Long Island Summer 2025 · 12 Jul 2025
- American Dream NJ 2025 · 4 May 2025
- Tipping Point Bloomsburg 2025 · 19 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Liberty Science Center Open B 2025 · 16 Mar 2025
- PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025 · 22 Feb 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Rutgers Winter 2025 · 25 Jan 2025
- Puzzles in Pottsville 2025 · 18 Jan 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Pop Off Princeton 2025 · 11 Jan 2025
- Cumberland County Fall 2024 · 26 Oct 2024 — 1 personal best set
- New York Championship 2024 · 14 Sep 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Saratoga Springs Summer 2024 · 14 Jul 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubing in the Ocean County 2024 · 29 Jun 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Pennsylvania Championship 2024 · 21 Jun 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Puzzles in Pottsville 2024 · 8 Jun 2024 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Zach Ridall — met in 73 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Evan Liu — met in 69 rounds, never finished ahead
- Rex Ozsvath — met in 53 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.38 away.
- A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,242 people have one; it is 0.15 away.
Targets move as he improves.