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Nolan Rickett

3×3 · top 1.1% of 288,433 all-time · competing since May 2016 · 2016RICK01

Nolan Rickett has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.75, set at Michigan Championship 2025, puts him in the top 1.1% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 686th in the United States. Until January 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 24 competitions since May 2016, he has put 937 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 85% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 38.61 in May 2016 to 6.75, an 83% improvement. Nolan has entered 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.1% of 288,433 all-time
6.75
signature single · Michigan Championship 2025
937
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
3×36.758.36
top 1.1%686 / 60,666
2×21.392.39
top 1.7%693 / 41,674
Megaminx40.7445.67
top 1.8%132 / 8,026
4×431.3336.09
top 3.7%606 / 19,354
Pyraminx3.325.65
top 4.8%1,272 / 29,168
Skewb3.237.46
top 6.2%974 / 19,164
5×51:02.471:04.19
top 7.0%568 / 9,537
6×61:50.152:10.19
top 7.3%255 / 4,262
3×3 one-handed14.6818.47
top 7.5%1,017 / 15,900
Square-112.0520.15
top 10.1%714 / 6,846
7×73:27.573:43.08
top 19.0%542 / 3,236
Clock10.9014.98
top 29.5%2,358 / 9,172

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

Summit City Open 2016: 38.61Indiana 2016: 24.14Mason Cubing Challenge 2016: 16.27CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 12.13Garrettsville G-Men Classic 2019: 8.03Michigan Championship 2024: 8.18Gaithersburg Back to School 2024: 8.28East Berlin Favorites PA 2024: 8.08Appalachian Highlands TN 2024: 7.66Don't Pop Preble 2024: 7.95Plymouth Puzzle-Off 2025: 7.08Gem City Pre-Flight Warm Up OH 2025: 7.63Ohio State Summer 2025: 7.58Michigan Championship 2025: 6.75Cubing by the Kings OH 2025: 6.96Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2025: 7.45UMBC Fall 2025: 8.46Ohio Championship 2025: 7.33Williamsburg Open Spring 2026: 8.36RVA Spring 2026: 7.96Colonial Cube Clash VA 2026: 8.13Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 7.26UMBC Fall 2026: 7.726.7538.617 May 20163 Oct 2026

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-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.75 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.39 away.

Targets move as he improves.