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Noah Salesky
3×3 · top 8.3% of 288,433 all-time · competing since May 2025 · 2025SALE08
Noah Salesky has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.28, set at Beaver Falls Open 2026, puts him in the top 8.3% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,645th in the United States. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since May 2025, he has put 77 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.33 in May 2025 to 10.28, a 33% improvement. Noah has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.28 | 12.60 | top 8.3% | 4,645 / 60,666 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.55 | 8.59 | top 10.5% | 2,798 / 29,168 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 17.69 | 32.43 | top 14.4% | 1,892 / 15,900 | |
| Skewb | 6.29 | 10.40 | top 28.1% | 4,646 / 19,164 | |
| Square-1 | 20.52 | 26.99 | top 29.2% | 1,926 / 6,846 | |
| 2×2 | 4.52 | 5.14 | top 33.2% | 13,429 / 41,674 | |
| 5×5 | 2:05.23 | — | early days — 2 solves | 4,502 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 19 Sep 2026Three personal bests in one day at Beaver Falls Open 2026.
- 16 May 2026First sub-15 3×3: 12.39 at Presidential Puzzles in PA 2026.
- 16 May 2026Four personal bests in one day at Presidential Puzzles in PA 2026.
- 17 May 2025First competition: Presidential Puzzles in PA 2025. A 15.64 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Beaver Falls Open 2026 · 19 Sep 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Presidential Puzzles in PA 2026 · 16 May 2026 — 4 personal bests set
- Presidential Puzzles in PA 2025 · 17 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Dev Choksi — met in 16 rounds, finished ahead once
- Colton Gehrling — met in 16 rounds, finished ahead once
- Leia Jiang — met in 16 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,606 people have one; it is 0.28 away.
- A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 10,050 people have one; it is 0.55 away.
Targets move as he improves.