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Nick Silvestri

3×3 · top 4.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2016 · 2016SILV08

Nick Silvestri has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.79, set at Virginia Beach Spring 2023, puts him in the top 4.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,446th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 51 competitions since March 2016, he has put 1,509 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.99 in March 2016 to 8.79, a 37% improvement. Nick has entered 51 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.4% of 284,439 all-time
8.79
signature single · Virginia Beach Spring 2023
1,509
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.7911.42
top 4.4%2,446 / 59,724
2×22.384.51
top 7.8%3,062 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed16.7922.50
top 12.1%1,570 / 15,683
4×444.2350.59
top 17.3%2,635 / 19,072
3×3 Fewest Moves31 moves33.00
top 17.4%385 / 2,040
Skewb4.927.62
top 17.5%2,772 / 18,907
Pyraminx6.059.07
top 20.4%5,477 / 28,708
5×51:23.201:33.10
top 21.7%1,685 / 9,401
3×3 blindfolded1:34.832:20.31
top 24.9%509 / 2,092
Megaminx1:35.091:46.43
top 31.4%2,222 / 7,841
6×62:50.573:05.18
top 36.4%1,310 / 4,196
Square-125.5636.92
top 40.3%2,618 / 6,743
7×74:31.924:36.48
top 41.7%1,191 / 3,184
Clock13.5317.83
top 41.9%3,356 / 8,927
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 3 cubes · 17:14—
early days — 2 solves386 / 731
4×4 blindfolded25:37.00—
early days — 1 solve419 / 440

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

AZCubing Winter 2016: 13.99AZCubing Spring 2016: 15.36AZCubing Spring 2017: 13.74Cubing Comp at Hamilton 2017: 14.40Potomac Speedcubing 2020: 13.60Slow N Steady Winter 2020: 14.36Slow N Steady Fall 2021: 11.95River Hill Spring 2022: 11.39Dunkirk Spring A 2022: 12.51Pennsylvania Championship 2022: 10.15Owings Mills Summer 2022: 12.25AZCubing Summer 2022: 12.15Silver Spring Summer 2022: 10.59Think In Fink Fall 2022: 10.95Slow N Steady Fall 2022: 11.04Crystal City Fall 2022: 11.23AZCubing Winter 2022: 12.14Crystal City Winter 2023: 12.18Cubing Under the Northern Lights 2023: 10.79Pretzel Mania 2023: 9.92Virginia Beach Spring 2023: 8.79Virginia Re-Open Spring 2023: 10.79Richmond Spring 2023: 10.27Slow N Steady Spring 2023: 13.24Cougar Qualifier 2023: 10.19Cubing in the Lion's Den 2023: 11.72CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 12.83CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 11.29Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 10.11Virginia Beach Fall 2023: 9.14Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 10.90Virginia Championship 2023: 10.50NoVa Cube Winter 2024: 11.43Virginia Still-Open Winter 2024: 9.18Cubing in the Lion's Den 2024: 12.28UMBC Winter 2024: 10.05Kent Spring 2024: 10.73The Last Frontier Summer 2024: 11.64CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024: 9.79Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 12.08Kent Summer 2024: 11.45Worlds Warmup Woodinville 2025: 11.15Warm Up Seattle 2025: 12.56Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 11.27Coffee Cup Tacoma 2025: 11.218.7915.365 Mar 20169 Aug 2025

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.79 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.38 away.

Targets move as he improves.