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Nikolai Harvey Sy Zipagan

Pyraminx · top 0.78% of 129,321 all-time · competing since December 2017 · 2017ZIPA01

Nikolai Harvey Sy Zipagan has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.77, set at Las Piñas Speedcubing Open IV 2026, puts him in the top 0.78% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 15th in the Philippines. Until April 2012, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 33 competitions since December 2017, he has put 1,097 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 84% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.17 in April 2018 to 7.15, a 22% improvement. Nikolai has entered 33 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.78% of 129,321 all-time
1.77
signature single · Las Piñas Speedcubing Open IV 2026
1,097
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 84% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPhilippines
Pyraminx1.772.70
top 0.78%15 / 2,621
3×37.158.55
top 1.5%131 / 6,270
4×427.8932.48
top 1.7%36 / 2,135
2×22.203.31
top 6.2%224 / 4,257
5×51:03.161:08.23
top 7.3%75 / 928
3×3 one-handed14.9720.49
top 8.1%178 / 2,440
Clock8.8812.31
top 19.4%121 / 534
6×62:45.942:55.10
top 33.9%129 / 298
Square-128.2938.27
top 46.2%192 / 374
7×76:10.52—
early days — 1 solve213 / 275

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

Metro Speedcubing Open III 2018: 9.17Antipolo City Cube Open 2018: 10.51ValenZheng Cube Open 2018: 9.39CaMaNaVa Open 2018: 8.24Philippine Championship 2018: 9.76Antipolo City Cube Open II 2019: 8.94San Jose Del Monte Cube Open 2019: 8.66Metro Speedcubing Open 2019: 9.80Luzon Championship 2019: 7.90Malabon City Cube Open 2019: 8.88South Luzon Open 2019: 8.25Philippine Championship 2019: 8.19Marikina City Open II 2019: 8.82WCC Speedcubing Open 2023: 8.35Algorithms in Antipolo 2023: 8.21Valenzuela Cubing Open 2023: 7.15Quezon City Open 2023: 7.36Baguio Speedcubing Open 2023: 7.59Cubing Battle of Katipunan 2024: 8.71MnM Caloocan Cubing Fest 2024: 7.54Elyu Cube Clash 2024: 7.69Katipunan One Big F2L 2024: 8.06Beginner's SampaLuck 2024: 7.31Pasig Summer Sides 2024: 8.73Quezon City Open II 2024: 9.2150 Years of Cubing in the Philippines 2024: 8.75Philippine Championship 2025: 8.07Las Piñas Speedcubing Open IV 2026: 8.93MnM Cube Cup Malolos 2026: 8.25Makati Heroes Speedcubing 2026: 7.477.1510.517 Apr 201823 Aug 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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.77 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.15 away.

Targets move as he improves.