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Nicolay Roness

3×3 · top 8.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2013 · 2013RONE01

Nicolay Roness has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.47, set at Kjeller Open 2014, puts him in the top 8.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 149th in Norway. Until February 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since June 2013, he has put 353 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.47 in June 2013 to 10.47, a 55% improvement. Nicolay has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.9% of 284,439 all-time
10.47
signature single · Kjeller Open 2014
353
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNorway
3×310.4711.90
top 8.9%149 / 1,609
2×22.754.06
top 11.5%167 / 1,202
Pyraminx4.8612.75
top 12.3%139 / 865
Skewb4.946.48
top 17.7%113 / 531
4×444.7847.85
top 18.0%90 / 590
3×3 one-handed26.9333.64
top 39.2%176 / 513
5×51:50.711:59.80
top 43.1%118 / 318
6×64:47.90
early days — 1 solve98 / 136
7×78:09.88
early days — 1 solve91 / 115

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

Oslo 3x3 2013: 23.47Swedish Championship 2013: 17.02Oslo Fall 2013: 14.60Norwegian Championship 2014: 14.15Inspiria Cube Day 2014: 13.37Rubik's Cube European Championships 2014: 11.53LeanNova Cube Day 2014: 11.12Kjeller Open 2014: 10.47Norwegian Championship 2015: 11.1310.4723.4717 Jun 201314 Mar 2015

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.47 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.75 away.

Targets move as he improves.