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Noah Atter

2×2 · top 2.7% of 186,767 all-time · competing since December 2023 · 2023ATTE02

Noah Atter has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.63, set at Newcomers Cape Cube-Fest 2025, puts him in the top 2.7% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 22nd in South Africa. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 14 competitions since December 2023, he has put 531 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 92% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.95 in December 2023 to 10.78, a 51% improvement. Noah has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 2.7% of 186,767 all-time
1.63
signature single · Newcomers Cape Cube-Fest 2025
531
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 92% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
2×21.633.56
top 2.7%22 / 1,510
3×310.7813.04
top 9.8%106 / 2,164
Skewb4.065.62
top 11.3%40 / 438
Pyraminx5.668.64
top 17.5%131 / 946
3×3 one-handed22.7226.50
top 28.0%81 / 467
4×41:06.151:16.59
top 43.0%147 / 491
Megaminx2:05.642:25.89
top 49.0%89 / 266
Clock15.9818.72
top 51.8%72 / 148
5×52:15.672:38.84
top 58.6%105 / 221
Square-142.011:12.03
top 67.8%85 / 118
3×3 Fewest Moves70 moves—
early days — 1 solve52 / 53

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

CubingZA Cape Cubes Challenge 2023: 21.95Mid Summer Madness Cape Town 2024: 18.98Harvest Moon Cape Town 2024: 16.11Eversdal Autumn 2024: 16.49Qualifying in Kirstenhof 2024: 12.74Rubik's WCA African Championship 2024: 12.42Beginner and Blind Cape Town 2024: 12.65Puzzles in Pinehurst 2025: 12.40Newcomers Cape Cube-Fest 2025: 11.77Mega Mania Cape Town 2025: 12.76Mother City Cubing Cape Town 2025: 11.35Cape Cubes Winter 2025: 12.18Cubestuff Grand Challenge Cape Town 2025: 10.7810.7821.959 Dec 20236 Dec 2025

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 — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.63 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.78 away.

Targets move as he improves.