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Nolan Kothe

3×3 · top 15.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2023 · 2023KOTH06

Nolan Kothe has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.50, set at Minnesota Championship 2024, puts him in the top 15.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8,355th in the United States. Across 12 competitions since October 2023, he has put 321 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 85% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.65 in October 2023 to 12.50, a 25% improvement. Nolan has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 15.6% of 284,439 all-time
12.50
signature single · Minnesota Championship 2024
321
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 85% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×312.5013.67
top 15.6%8,355 / 59,724
2×23.455.20
top 19.6%7,678 / 40,951
Skewb6.119.96
top 26.6%4,329 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed28.3939.03
top 42.9%5,773 / 15,683
Pyraminx8.9415.21
top 44.3%12,713 / 28,708
Clock14.1516.42
top 44.5%3,578 / 8,927
4×41:13.241:26.17
top 50.0%8,415 / 19,072
Megaminx2:48.164:00.30
top 69.5%5,350 / 7,841
5×52:47.00
top 73.5%6,515 / 9,401
Square-11:36.88
early days — 3 solves6,549 / 6,743

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

Cubetcha 2023: 16.65SPAMtown II 2023: 17.77Side Events Minnesota 2023: 15.47North Star Cubing Challenge 2024: 14.16Elite in Eagan 2024: 16.02New Ulm Reboot 2024: 17.14Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 15.36Minnesota Meetup IV Monday 2024: 16.27Rosemount Big Cubes 2024: 14.48Rosemount Side Events 2024: 15.88Cubing on Lake Superior 2024: 14.91Minnesota Championship 2024: 12.5012.5017.7728 Oct 202330 Nov 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.50 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.45 away.

Targets move as he improves.