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Nickolai Jones

3×3 · top 5.1% of 288,433 all-time · competing since October 2023 · 2023JONE39

Nickolai Jones has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.11, set at Cube Against Cancer Edmond 2025, puts him in the top 5.1% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,919th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since October 2023, he has put 832 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.52 in October 2023 to 9.11, a 21% improvement. Nickolai has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.1% of 288,433 all-time
9.11
signature single · Cube Against Cancer Edmond 2025
832
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.1110.62
top 5.1%2,919 / 60,666
2×22.253.73
top 6.7%2,668 / 41,674
Square-110.9517.47
top 7.9%579 / 6,846
Pyraminx4.467.16
top 10.0%2,654 / 29,168
Megaminx1:00.361:11.09
top 10.3%725 / 8,026
4×438.9346.28
top 10.9%1,648 / 19,354
Skewb4.299.31
top 13.0%2,038 / 19,164
5×51:13.231:27.07
top 14.1%1,090 / 9,537
Clock9.5312.11
top 22.6%1,781 / 9,172
3×3 one-handed21.3123.99
top 24.1%3,130 / 15,900
6×63:00.493:07.83
top 41.3%1,537 / 4,262

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

Lawton OKtoberfest Fall 2023: 11.52UCO Cubing Winter 2024: 11.45OKC Cube-Off Winter 2024: 10.83Oklahoma Championship 2024: 11.60Oklahoma Afternoon Twist 2024: 11.83CubingUSA Southern Championship 2024: 11.88Cube More in Ardmore 2024: 10.64OKC Holiday Cube-Off 2024: 11.51Cube Against Cancer Edmond 2025: 9.11Oklahoma Championship 2025: 10.90OKC Unorthodox Blocks 2025: 10.06OKC Weeknight Solves 2025: 9.84Lawton OKtoberfest 2025: 9.13OKC Winter 2026: 9.99Oklahoma Championship 2026: 9.26UCO Mega Cube-Off 2026: 9.369.1111.8814 Oct 202317 Oct 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.

  • Jake Maddox — met in 146 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
  • Casey Ngo — met in 145 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
  • Ryan Pilat — met in 139 rounds, never finished ahead

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.11 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.25 away.

Targets move as he improves.