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Nigel Sim

3×3 · top 0.46% of 288,433 all-time · competing since June 2022 · 2022SIMN01

Nigel Sim has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.95, set at Singapore Championship 2023, puts him in the top 0.46% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 15th in Singapore. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since June 2022, he has put 815 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 87% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 7.69 in September 2022 to 5.95, a 23% improvement. Nigel has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.46% of 288,433 all-time
5.95
signature single · Singapore Championship 2023
815
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 87% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSingapore
3×35.957.50
top 0.46%15 / 1,559
3×3 one-handed10.9913.05
top 1.8%23 / 471
4×428.5831.91
top 2.1%28 / 466
5×553.501:01.13
top 2.9%24 / 254
2×21.672.49
top 2.9%65 / 1,064
6×61:51.281:59.55
top 7.7%23 / 127
7×72:52.543:02.70
top 8.6%24 / 96

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

YJ Malaysia Cube Open 2022: 7.69Malaysia Cube Championship 2022: 7.52Singapore Championship 2023: 5.95MYHM Singapore Championship 2024: 7.60Coping in July Singapore 2025: 7.11Singapore Independence Day 2025: 6.94Mofunland Speedcubing Singapore 2025: 6.95Singapore Sprint November 2025: 6.53Singapore Pyraminx March 2026: 6.70Singapore Double or Nothing Parity Mayhem 2026: 6.44Odd July Singapore 2026: 6.78Mofunland Speedcubing Singapore 2026: 7.06Singapore Kempinski Open 2026: 7.925.957.922 Sep 202217 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 355 people have one; it is 0.95 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 800 people have one; it is 0.99 away.

Targets move as he improves.