People · United States
Aaron Sabado
3×3 · top 0.93% of 288,433 all-time · competing since January 2025 · 2025SABA01
Aaron Sabado has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.58, set at Berkeley Favorites 2026, puts him in the top 0.93% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 595th in the United States. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since January 2025, he has put 110 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 90% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 7.89 in January 2025 to 6.58, a 17% improvement. Aaron has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 6.58 | 8.41 | top 0.93% | 595 / 60,666 | |
| 2×2 | 3.13 | 3.93 | top 15.8% | 6,283 / 41,674 | |
| 4×4 | 43.34 | 51.80 | top 16.3% | 2,496 / 19,354 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 21.48 | 24.68 | top 24.6% | 3,203 / 15,900 | |
| 5×5 | 1:26.82 | 1:37.74 | top 24.9% | 1,959 / 9,537 | |
| Pyraminx | 7.88 | 11.02 | top 35.2% | 10,118 / 29,168 |
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
- 19 Jan 2025First competition: SacCubing XIX 2025. A 9.05 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Berkeley Favorites 2026 · 1 Mar 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- SacCubing XXII 2026 · 18 Jan 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Berkeley Winter 2025 · 8 Feb 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- SacCubing XIX 2025 · 19 Jan 2025 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Gurshan Singh — met in 21 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Benjamin Schaham — met in 20 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Kenji Gipson-Nahman — met in 18 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.58 away.
- A sub-3 2×2 single — 27,049 people have one; it is 0.13 away.
Targets move as he improves.