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Alex Flores
3×3 · top 6.1% of 288,433 all-time · competing since March 2020 · 2020FLOR07
Alex Flores has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.50, set at Beach Bash Jacksonville 2024, puts him in the top 6.1% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,453rd in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since March 2020, he has put 282 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 75% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.71 in March 2020 to 9.50, a 66% improvement. Alex has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% 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 | 9.50 | 10.55 | top 6.1% | 3,453 / 60,666 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 16.02 | 18.55 | top 10.3% | 1,386 / 15,900 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.65 | 9.63 | top 11.1% | 2,945 / 29,168 | |
| 2×2 | 3.40 | 4.84 | top 19.0% | 7,567 / 41,674 | |
| Skewb | 6.20 | 11.04 | top 27.4% | 4,519 / 19,164 | |
| Square-1 | 30.17 | 41.13 | top 49.7% | 3,300 / 6,846 | |
| 4×4 | 1:35.15 | 1:45.07 | top 67.5% | 12,110 / 19,354 |
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
- 10 Aug 2024First sub-10 3×3: 9.50 at Beach Bash Jacksonville 2024.
- 3 Dec 2022Five personal bests in one day at FSUbers 3.0 2022.
- 25 Jun 2022First sub-20 3×3: 15.20 at Cubing Bulls 2022.
- 25 Jun 2022First sub-15 3×3: 12.96 at Cubing Bulls 2022.
- 25 Jun 2022Three personal bests in one day at Cubing Bulls 2022.
- 13 Mar 2020First competition: Florida 2020. A 27.71 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Turn Back the Clock Miami 2026 · 10 Oct 2026
- Thrice as Nice Miami 2025 · 14 Dec 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Beach Bash Jacksonville 2025 · 9 Aug 2025
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025
- Beach Bash Jacksonville 2024 · 10 Aug 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing Knights V 2023 · 16 Dec 2023 — 1 personal best set
- FSUbers 4.0 2023 · 29 Apr 2023
- Holiday Open 2023 · 25 Mar 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Pegasus 2023 · 7 Jan 2023 — 1 personal best set
- FSUbers 3.0 2022 · 3 Dec 2022 — 5 personal bests set
- Cubing Bulls 2022 · 25 Jun 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Florida 2020 · 13 Mar 2020
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.
- Carter Bitz — met in 51 rounds, finished ahead once
- Kellan Butler — met in 47 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Sean Hartman — met in 45 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.50 away.
- A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 6,118 people have one; it is 1.02 away.
Targets move as he improves.