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Nikolai Lexander Moncrieff Dyrkolbotn Brown

2×2 · top 1.3% of 189,179 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024BROW19

Nikolai Lexander Moncrieff Dyrkolbotn Brown has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.27, set at Bergen Open 2026, puts him in the top 1.3% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 23rd in Norway. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since March 2024, he has put 819 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 72% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.78 in March 2024 to 7.32, a 54% improvement. Nikolai has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.3% of 189,179 all-time
1.27
signature single · Bergen Open 2026
819
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNorway
2×21.272.27
top 1.3%23 / 1,217
3×37.329.78
top 1.7%36 / 1,643
4×434.9239.38
top 6.7%32 / 596
Clock6.146.37
top 7.6%15 / 243
Pyraminx4.184.72
top 8.6%96 / 879
Square-114.0416.57
top 14.3%21 / 154
3×3 one-handed20.3227.73
top 21.4%103 / 521
Skewb5.447.05
top 21.6%141 / 537
Megaminx1:20.941:25.59
top 22.5%41 / 268
5×51:25.391:33.41
top 23.8%58 / 321
7×75:16.855:42.75
early days — 3 solves52 / 121
6×64:22.634:34.33
early days — 3 solves93 / 141

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

Bergen Spring 2024: 15.78Bergen Open 2024: 12.37Norwegian Championship 2024: 10.48Bergen Fall 2024: 9.70Åsane Open 2024: 11.14Sandnes Winter 2025: 10.96Bergen Spring 2025: 10.36Norwegian Championship 2025: 9.58Bergen Fall 2025: 10.58Bergen Spring 2026: 9.12Sommerkubing på Vitenfabrikken 2026: 10.23Norwegian Championship 2026: 8.02Sandnes Open 2026: 7.32Bergen Open 2026: 8.897.3215.7816 Mar 202410 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-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.27 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.32 away.

Targets move as he improves.