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Nikolas Warner

2×2 · top 1.2% of 189,179 all-time · competing since June 2024 · 2024WARN03

Nikolas Warner has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.25, set at Virginia Championship 2026, puts him in the top 1.2% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 508th in the United States. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since June 2024, he has put 624 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 91% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.18 in January 2025 to 10.96, a 64% improvement. Nikolas has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.2% of 189,179 all-time
1.25
signature single · Virginia Championship 2026
624
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.253.57
top 1.2%508 / 41,674
Pyraminx3.284.41
top 4.6%1,226 / 29,168
Clock6.147.05
top 7.6%611 / 9,172
Skewb3.865.81
top 10.0%1,553 / 19,164
3×310.9613.56
top 10.4%5,690 / 60,666
3×3 one-handed23.8426.89
top 31.1%4,082 / 15,900
4×41:04.781:09.99
top 41.6%6,904 / 19,354
Square-128.8741.89
top 47.4%3,127 / 6,846
Megaminx2:37.33—
top 64.9%5,073 / 8,026
5×52:50.33—
top 74.8%6,766 / 9,537

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

Bethesda Winter Wonderland 2025: 30.18Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 24.28New-Cumberland County 2025: 18.11Virginia Always Open Spring 2025: 20.73UMBC Spring 2025: 17.62Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 19.14Virginia Championship 2025: 17.09CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 15.65UMBC Fall 2025: 14.33Ohio Championship 2025: 15.13Fredericksburg Winter AM 2026: 10.96TJHSST Winter 2026: 12.63Welcome to Washington D.C. 2026: 11.91Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 11.48Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 11.37Moore Cubes in Loudoun 2026: 12.12Virginia Championship 2026: 12.8410.9630.1818 Jan 202517 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 0.25 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,783 people have one; it is 0.28 away.

Targets move as he improves.