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Noah Melita

3×3 · top 0.36% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2018 · 2018MELI05

Noah Melita has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.78, set at Empire State Winter B 2022, puts him in the top 0.36% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 241st in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since December 2018, he has put 940 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.84 in December 2018 to 5.78, a 61% improvement. Noah has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.36% of 284,439 all-time
5.78
signature single · Empire State Winter B 2022
940
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.787.22
top 0.36%241 / 59,724
Skewb1.503.33
top 0.45%74 / 18,907
2×21.121.84
top 0.82%340 / 40,951
Megaminx38.5842.95
top 1.3%81 / 7,841
Square-16.868.70
top 1.6%122 / 6,743
Pyraminx2.423.65
top 2.0%529 / 28,708
4×430.3633.55
top 3.0%492 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed12.8516.26
top 4.2%616 / 15,683
5×51:02.421:06.72
top 6.9%551 / 9,401
6×62:07.892:11.96
top 14.4%524 / 4,196
Clock8.088.79
top 15.6%1,187 / 8,927
7×73:48.843:59.06
top 26.7%750 / 3,184

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

Penn Cube Day Fall 2018: 14.84Binghamton Winter 2019: 13.20Upstate Cubing 2019: 13.34Colonie Spring 2019: 11.91Burke Mountain Fall 2019: 10.59Canandaigua Winter 2020: 9.97Empire State Summer A 2021: 7.93Babylon Fall 2021: 7.28Empire State Winter B 2022: 5.78ROC the Cube 2022: 7.30Flower City Cube Fest 2022: 5.85Burke Mountain Cubing 2022: 7.75Troy Story 2023: 6.66Empire State Winter Warmup 2023: 7.14Canton Cube Day 2023: 6.23Chemung Cubing 2023: 6.74Cicero 2023: 6.44Troy Story 2024: 5.93New York Championship 2024: 6.76Finger Lakes Fingertricks 2024: 6.295.7814.848 Dec 20187 Dec 2024

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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.78 away.
  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.50 away.

Targets move as he improves.