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Noah Best
3×3 · top 9.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2023 · 2023BEST02
Noah Best has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.77, set at Tramsheds VI: Winter Sunday 2025, puts him in the top 9.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 863rd in Australia. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since July 2023, he has put 83 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 42.64 in July 2023 to 10.77, a 75% improvement. Noah has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% 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 | 10.77 | 14.24 | top 9.8% | 863 / 11,709 | |
| Pyraminx | 8.55 | 11.62 | top 41.0% | 2,232 / 5,993 | |
| Skewb | 10.53 | 16.79 | top 58.2% | 1,905 / 3,534 | |
| 4×4 | 1:29.24 | 1:47.26 | top 63.0% | 1,790 / 3,051 | |
| 2×2 | 10.72 | 12.39 | top 80.6% | 6,776 / 8,567 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 1:18.91 | — | early days — 2 solves | 2,451 / 2,659 |
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
- 17 Nov 2024First sub-20 3×3: 15.65 at Sydney Spring Sunday 2024.
- 17 Nov 2024First sub-15 3×3: 14.90 at Sydney Spring Sunday 2024.
- 27 Aug 2023First sub-30 3×3: 24.08 at Cubing at Tramsheds Sunday 2023.
- 16 Jul 2023First competition: Warm Up Sydney Sunday 2023. A 42.64 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Tramsheds VI: Winter Sunday 2025 · 24 Aug 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Sydney Spring Sunday 2024 · 17 Nov 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Tramsheds III: August Sunday 2024 · 25 Aug 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Tramsheds I: Newcomer Sunday 2024 · 3 Mar 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Sydney Summer 2023 · 16 Dec 2023
- Cubing at Tramsheds Sunday 2023 · 27 Aug 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Warm Up Sydney Sunday 2023 · 16 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.
- Miles Irwin — met in 16 rounds, never finished ahead
- Reyansh Gupta — met in 16 rounds, never finished ahead
- Archimedes Dines — met in 16 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.77 away.
- A sub-8 Pyraminx single — 46,752 people have one; it is 0.55 away.
Targets move as he improves.