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Stanley Nerkowski IV

3×3 one-handed · top 2.8% of 73,695 all-time · competing since February 2014 · 2014NERK01

Stanley Nerkowski IV has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 11.90, set at CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2018, puts him in the top 2.8% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 448th in the United States. Until August 2010, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 54 competitions since February 2014, he has put 2,082 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.52 in February 2014 to 9.57, a 66% improvement. Stanley has entered 54 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 2.8% of 73,695 all-time
11.90
signature single · CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2018
2,082
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 one-handed11.9018.03
top 2.8%448 / 15,683
2×22.124.23
top 5.6%2,232 / 40,951
3×39.5711.33
top 6.3%3,472 / 59,724
Pyraminx3.864.52
top 7.0%1,776 / 28,708
Skewb3.495.59
top 7.7%1,194 / 18,907
5×51:06.081:17.15
top 9.1%711 / 9,401
7×72:57.763:07.16
top 9.9%270 / 3,184
4×438.4143.41
top 10.2%1,521 / 19,072
Square-112.9117.67
top 11.7%811 / 6,743
Megaminx1:13.421:19.94
top 17.7%1,196 / 7,841
6×62:18.212:22.24
top 19.6%693 / 4,196
Clock10.6612.65
top 28.4%2,192 / 8,927
3×3 Fewest Moves41 moves—
early days — 3 solves1,101 / 2,040

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

CCFC Winter 2014: 28.52Williams Winter 2014: 23.61CCFC BLD Day 2014: 19.33GCC Fall 2014: 16.08Lexington Fall 2014: 18.31MIT Fall 2014: 19.31Williams Winter 2015: 17.16Yale Spring 2015: 16.90Lexington Spring 2015: 19.11MIT Spring 2015: 15.53US Nationals 2015: 17.51Norwich Summer 2015: 14.33Lexington Fall 2015: 14.76Williams Winter 2016: 12.81Slow N Steady Spring 2016: 16.39Lexington Summer 2016: 11.90US Nationals 2016: 13.19Quabbin Spring 2017: 11.46Lexington Summer 2017: 9.58CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 13.28Sharon Summer 2017: 11.26Glass City Open 2017: 10.57ChicaGhosts 2017: 11.60St. Boois 2017: 10.54New York City Winter 2018: 12.05Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 11.24Howland Winter 2018: 10.74Hudson Valley Open 2018: 11.49Shaker Spring 2018: 11.09Kent State Taco Bash 2018: 10.66CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2018: 9.76CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 10.04CubingUSA Western Championship 2018: 11.05CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 11.10Pennsylvania 2018: 11.27Flag City Fall 2018: 10.46Michigan Cubing Club Delta 2018: 10.19Imagination Station 2018: 10.06Hudson Valley Winter 2019: 10.88Garrettsville G-Men Classic 2019: 12.42Flag City Spring 2019: 10.75Kent State Taco Bash 2019: 9.66CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 11.07Cuyahoga Cubing 2019: 9.57Kent Fall 2019: 11.62Garrettsville G-Men Classic 2020: 10.84Happy Valley Spring 2022: 9.93Auckland Autumn 2023: 10.479.5728.521 Feb 201413 May 2023

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-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 1.90 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.12 away.

Targets move as he improves.