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Ari Esteves
3×3 · top 24.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2025 · 2025ESTE02
Ari Esteves has been competing for a year. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 15.03, set at SacCubing XXI 2025, puts her in the top 24.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13,323rd in the United States. Across 6 competitions since January 2025, she has put 103 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 78% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 27.43 in January 2025 to 15.03, a 45% improvement. Ari has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% 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 | 15.03 | 16.97 | top 24.5% | 13,323 / 59,724 | |
| 2×2 | 3.92 | 5.06 | top 25.5% | 9,994 / 40,951 | |
| Square-1 | 31.65 | 42.52 | top 52.6% | 3,453 / 6,743 | |
| Pyraminx | 10.98 | 15.03 | top 60.4% | 17,758 / 28,708 | |
| Skewb | 12.00 | 16.26 | top 66.1% | 12,320 / 18,907 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 41.47 | 52.23 | top 67.4% | 9,619 / 15,683 | |
| 4×4 | 1:45.54 | — | early days — 1 solve | 13,458 / 19,072 |
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
- 8 Mar 2025First sub-20 3×3: 19.13 at Yuba City Spring 2025.
- 19 Jan 2025First competition: SacCubing XIX 2025. A 27.43 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- SacCubing XXI 2025 · 28 Sep 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- SacMini 2025 · 29 Jun 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- SacCubing XX 2025 · 18 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Davis Spring 2025 · 6 Apr 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Yuba City Spring 2025 · 8 Mar 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- SacCubing XIX 2025 · 19 Jan 2025
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 her.
- Bowen Deng (邓博文) — met in 23 rounds, never finished ahead
- Jason Ostdiek — met in 23 rounds, never finished ahead
- Chris Martin — met in 22 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
Next targets
- A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 0.03 away.
- A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.92 away.
Targets move as she improves.