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Paulo Korowajczuk Nader

3×3 · top 4.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2022 · 2022NADE05

Paulo Korowajczuk Nader has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.83, set at UMBC Winter 2026, puts him in the top 4.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 197th in Brazil. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since December 2022, he has put 329 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.47 in December 2022 to 8.83, a 59% improvement. Paulo has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.5% of 284,439 all-time
8.83
signature single · UMBC Winter 2026
329
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingBrazil
3×38.8311.62
top 4.5%197 / 9,644
2×22.023.33
top 4.9%149 / 5,137
3×3 Fewest Moves28 moves47.00
top 9.9%33 / 360
3×3 one-handed18.3022.42
top 15.9%227 / 1,992
Pyraminx5.7910.15
top 18.4%431 / 3,208
4×448.3055.27
top 22.5%286 / 1,855
Square-119.5835.67
top 27.0%144 / 647
Clock12.3917.64
top 36.9%233 / 723
Skewb9.0711.53
top 48.9%621 / 1,463
5×52:20.35—
top 61.2%420 / 845
3×3 blindfolded3:56.28—
early days — 1 solve195 / 333

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

Crystal City Fall 2022: 21.47Dunkirk Winter 2023: 22.30Potomac Spring 2023: 19.38TJHSST Spring 2023: 16.69Slow N Steady Fall 2023: 14.64NoVa Cube Winter 2024: 13.68Slow N Steady Spring 2024: 13.14Cubing at Carson 2024: 12.53Gaithersburg Back to School 2024: 11.95Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 10.97TJHSST Spring 2025: 10.38Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2025: 10.39UMBC Winter 2026: 8.83Welcome to Washington D.C. 2026: 10.568.8322.303 Dec 202225 Apr 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.83 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.02 away.

Targets move as he improves.