People · Canada
Nyal Umar
2×2 · top 7.3% of 189,179 all-time · competing since August 2022 · 2022UMAR03
Nyal Umar has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.32, set at Ontario Championship 2024, puts him in the top 7.3% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 475th in Canada. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 14 competitions since August 2022, he has put 283 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 58% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.71 in August 2022 to 10.70, a 40% improvement. Nyal has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 2.32 | 3.24 | top 7.3% | 475 / 7,245 | |
| 3×3 | 10.70 | 12.97 | top 9.6% | 894 / 10,502 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.51 | 11.68 | top 16.5% | 675 / 4,913 | |
| 4×4 | 50.46 | 56.47 | top 25.4% | 652 / 3,180 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 24.31 | 26.43 | top 32.5% | 730 / 2,632 | |
| Skewb | 7.04 | 9.93 | top 34.1% | 851 / 2,928 | |
| 5×5 | 1:55.48 | 2:17.16 | top 46.4% | 622 / 1,546 | |
| Clock | 17.79 | 19.68 | top 58.1% | 549 / 1,057 | |
| 6×6 | 5:21.10 | — | early days — 2 solves | 532 / 683 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 6:57.29 | — | early days — 3 solves | 329 / 362 | |
| 7×7 | 8:49.16 | — | early days — 1 solve | 478 / 519 |
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
- 9 Aug 2024Three personal bests in one day at Ontario Championship 2024.
- 19 Nov 2023Three personal bests in one day at Scarborough Fall B 2023.
- 30 Oct 2022First sub-15 3×3: 14.83 at Ajax First-Timers 2022.
- 19 Aug 2022First competition: CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2022. A 17.71 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Ottawa Side Events B 2026 · 18 Oct 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Waterloo Fall 2025 · 29 Nov 2025
- Pickering NxNxN Summer 2025 · 21 Jun 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Pickering Mini Morning 2024 · 21 Sep 2024
- Ontario Championship 2024 · 9 Aug 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Thornhill Spring 2024 · 20 Apr 2024
- Scarborough Fall B 2023 · 19 Nov 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Pickering Favourites Fall 2023 · 1 Oct 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Markham 3x3x3 Morning 2023 · 29 Apr 2023
- Pickering B 2023 · 19 Mar 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Waterloo Favourites B 2023 · 19 Feb 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Oakville Fall B 2022 · 27 Nov 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Ajax First-Timers 2022 · 30 Oct 2022 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2022 · 19 Aug 2022
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.
- Aidan Xu — met in 37 rounds, finished ahead 19 times
- Nolan Jeanneret — met in 34 rounds, finished ahead 14 times
- Abdullah Gulab — met in 33 rounds, finished ahead 12 times
Next targets
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.32 away.
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,606 people have one; it is 0.70 away.
Targets move as he improves.