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Nikolas Keramaris
3×3 · top 3.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2023 · 2023KERA02
Nikolas Keramaris has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.40, set at VIC State Championship 2025, puts him in the top 3.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 340th in Australia. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since July 2023, he has put 475 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.77 in July 2023 to 8.40, a 63% improvement. Nikolas has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Australia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 8.40 | 10.07 | top 3.5% | 340 / 11,709 | |
| 2×2 | 1.83 | 3.08 | top 3.7% | 289 / 8,567 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.71 | 6.06 | top 11.5% | 534 / 5,993 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 21.55 | 25.24 | top 24.7% | 553 / 2,659 | |
| Skewb | 9.23 | 16.33 | top 50.0% | 1,601 / 3,534 | |
| 4×4 | 1:21.22 | 1:31.05 | top 56.9% | 1,581 / 3,051 | |
| 5×5 | 3:46.78 | — | early days — 1 solve | 1,280 / 1,356 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 24 Jan 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.67 at Melbourne Summer 2025.
- 24 Jan 2025Five personal bests in one day at Melbourne Summer 2025.
- 19 Jan 2024First sub-15 3×3: 12.85 at Melbourne Summer 2024.
- 19 Jan 2024Four personal bests in one day at Melbourne Summer 2024.
- 11 Nov 2023First sub-20 3×3: 15.66 at Melbourne Cube Days 2023.
- 11 Nov 2023Three personal bests in one day at Melbourne Cube Days 2023.
Competitions
- Australian Nationals 2026 · 9 Jul 2026
- Melbourne Summer 2026 · 24 Jan 2026
- Melbourne Cube Days 2025 · 29 Nov 2025
- Apollo Bay Cubing 2025 · 18 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Geelong Winter 2025 · 30 Aug 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Spark Melbourne July 2025 · 26 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- VIC State Championship 2025 · 31 May 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Melbourne Summer 2025 · 24 Jan 2025 — 5 personal bests set
- Melbourne Cube Days 2024 · 30 Nov 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- The Big Cube Melbourne 2024 · 20 Jul 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Apollo Bay Cubing 2024 · 15 Jun 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Mount Gambier Open 2024 · 21 Apr 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Altona Algorithms 2024 · 2 Mar 2024
- Melbourne Summer 2024 · 19 Jan 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Melbourne Cube Days 2023 · 11 Nov 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Victorian Open 2023 · 1 Jul 2023
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.
- Phoenix Patterson — met in 94 rounds, finished ahead once
- Roman Rudakov — met in 92 rounds, never finished ahead
- Ben Wakelin — met in 87 rounds, finished ahead 32 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.40 away.
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.83 away.
Targets move as he improves.