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Nicole Santos

Clock · top 1.6% of 32,048 all-time · competing since June 2023 · 2023SANT45

Nicole Santos has been competing for 3 years. Her best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 3.55, set at Turn 'N Solve Marikina 2024, puts her in the top 1.6% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 11th in the Philippines. Until July 2018, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 47 competitions since June 2023, she has put 1,336 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 22.66 in June 2023 to 9.93, a 56% improvement. Nicole has entered 47 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 1.6% of 32,048 all-time
3.55
signature single · Turn 'N Solve Marikina 2024
1,336
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPhilippines
Clock3.554.91
top 1.6%11 / 534
Square-19.6112.41
top 5.5%26 / 374
3×39.9311.31
top 7.3%750 / 6,270
Pyraminx3.997.06
top 7.6%187 / 2,621
2×22.564.43
top 9.5%366 / 4,257
3×3 one-handed16.6721.60
top 11.8%282 / 2,440
Skewb4.456.44
top 14.1%210 / 1,320
Megaminx1:08.651:18.42
top 14.9%105 / 690
4×447.5057.25
top 21.5%551 / 2,135
5×51:48.941:56.39
top 41.8%471 / 928
3×3 Fewest Moves51 moves—
early days — 3 solves157 / 189

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

WCC Speedcubing Open 2023: 22.66San Mateo Speedcubing Open 2023: 17.12Algorithms in Antipolo 2023: 22.05Caloocan Cube Fest 2023: 17.26Marikina City ReMINX 2023: 14.45Cainta Cubing Mania 2024: 13.03Katipunan One Big F2L 2024: 12.09Pasig Summer Sides 2024: 12.50Cavite Speedcubing Open VII 2024: 11.02Quezon City Open II 2024: 14.62San Jose del Monte Cube Open II 2024: 14.57Clocked in Quezon City 2024: 12.55Philippine Championship 2024: 10.42San Mateo Speedcubing Open 2024: 11.39A Twisty Day in Araneta 2024: 12.85Valenzuela Sides Challenge 2024: 10.94Manila's Blindsided 2024: 10.40Minx It Up in Pasig 2024: 10.04Ortigas Fair and Squares 2024: 11.2150 Years of Cubing in the Philippines 2024: 10.09Turn 'N Solve Bulacan 2024: 10.34Spooky Turn 'N Solve Valenzuela 2024: 12.98Las Piñas Speedcubing Open II 2024: 9.93Turn 'N Solve CaMaNaVa 2024: 10.92Turn 'N Solve Marikina 2024: 12.65Cainta Puzzle Fest 2024: 11.61CaMaNaVa Year-End Blast 2024: 10.95Sikat ng Taon Speedcubing Blitz 2025: 13.03Bonifacio Global City Speedcubing Newcomer 2025: 10.98Ateneo Pi Day Plus 1 2025: 10.23South Luzon Championship 2025: 10.14Quezon City Cubing Sides 2025: 11.33Caloocan Speedcubing Open 2025: 11.46Pinoy Side Events Open 2025: 11.13South Park Center Muntinlupa Speedcubing Open 2025: 10.90Learn How to Cube in Antipolo 2025: 11.91Luzon Multi-Mega Madness 2025: 11.20SM Manila Speedcubing Warm-Up 2025: 10.28Philippine Championship 2025: 11.93Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 10.00Makati Heroes Speedcubing 2025: 9.939.9322.664 Jun 20232 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-3 Clock single — 239 people have one; it is 0.55 away.
  • A sub-8 Square-1 single — 766 people have one; it is 1.61 away.

Targets move as she improves.