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Alfonso Esteban Cepeda Cádiz

4×4 · top 3.4% of 85,040 all-time · competing since October 2017 · 2017CADI02

Alfonso Esteban Cepeda Cádiz has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 30.75, set at Serena Open 2019, puts him in the top 3.4% of the 85,040 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 28th in Chile. Until August 2011, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 28 competitions since October 2017, he has put 669 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 84% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.98 in October 2017 to 8.57, a 14% improvement. Alfonso has entered 28 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 3.4% of 85,040 all-time
30.75
signature single · Serena Open 2019
669
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 84% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChile
4×430.7534.67
top 3.4%28 / 563
3×38.579.74
top 3.9%73 / 2,100
5×51:06.711:16.72
top 9.6%26 / 225
2×23.515.35
top 20.4%259 / 1,313
6×62:46.802:55.25
top 34.5%37 / 97
3×3 one-handed25.6128.30
top 35.9%182 / 462
7×75:10.49—
top 54.1%50 / 76

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

DEC Open 2017: 9.98SCU Open 2017: 9.86Instituto Nacional Open 2017: 9.86Melipilla Open 2018: 10.30CCP 2018: 8.70La Serena Open 2018: 9.25Santiago UV de Otoño 2018: 9.67Instituto Nacional Open 2018: 8.96LGA Open 2018: 9.58Los Ángeles Invierno 2018: 9.61Curicó al Cubo 2018: 9.11UA Open 2018: 9.27CubiKonce 2019: 9.27Melipilla Open 2019: 8.57Serena Open 2019: 9.35Cubopía Open 2020: 9.29Melipilla Open 2021: 10.37Requínoa Open 2022: 10.32Santiago UV Open 2022: 9.64Montealegre Open 2023: 8.86Patio Cubik Masters Sábado 2023: 9.28Salesianos de Macul Open 2023: 10.32Club De Campo Cubing La Pintana 2024: 9.40Patio Cubik Lite 2024: 9.35Rancagua Open 2024: 9.58Middle Georgia Fall Frenzy 2026: 9.398.5710.3727 Oct 201717 Oct 2026

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

  • 27 Oct 2017First competition: DEC Open 2017. A 10.89 3×3 single to start from.
  • 27 Oct 2017First sub-10 3×3: 9.98 at DEC Open 2017.

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-30 4×4 single — 2,465 people have one; it is 0.75 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.57 away.

Targets move as he improves.