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Austin Sanchez

2×2 · top 1.7% of 186,767 all-time · competing since July 2021 · 2021SANC01

Austin Sanchez has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.40, set at Cubing Simple in Temple 2025, puts him in the top 1.7% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 690th in the United States. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since July 2021, he has put 1,378 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.86 in July 2021 to 7.80, a 76% improvement. Austin has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.7% of 186,767 all-time
1.40
signature single · Cubing Simple in Temple 2025
1,378
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.402.69
top 1.7%690 / 40,951
3×37.809.10
top 2.4%1,429 / 59,724
Pyraminx2.833.46
top 3.1%823 / 28,708
Skewb2.563.76
top 3.1%478 / 18,907
Square-112.5817.31
top 11.0%769 / 6,743
4×440.1245.12
top 12.3%1,814 / 19,072
Clock8.2410.27
top 16.4%1,247 / 8,927
3×3 one-handed19.1922.23
top 18.3%2,360 / 15,683
5×51:19.981:27.91
top 19.1%1,491 / 9,401
Megaminx1:27.101:33.09
top 26.3%1,817 / 7,841
6×62:55.833:18.85
top 39.0%1,421 / 4,196
7×74:43.825:04.31
early days — 3 solves1,331 / 3,184

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

Cubing Is A Sport Frisco AM 2021: 31.86CubingUSA Southern Championship 2022: 12.81CubingUSA Texas Championship 2022: 12.94DFW Cubing Winter 2023: 12.04Cube Against Cancer Texas 2023: 11.78Houston Spring Side Events 2023: 12.35CubingUSA Southern Championship 2023: 11.08Space City Summer 2023: 12.66Texas Championship 2023: 9.88Keep Austin Weird 2023: 10.18DFW Megacomp 2024: 9.01Don't Pop Austin 2024: 8.95Humble Cube Rumble Summer 2024: 10.58CubingUSA Southern Championship 2024: 9.88Austin NxN 2024: 9.42Texas Championship 2024: 9.62Cubing Simple in Temple 2025: 10.45Cube More in Taylor 2025: 8.75Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.68San Antonio Fall 2025: 8.48Texas Championship 2025: 7.84New Braunfels Comal Cubing Classic 2026: 9.70Cubing at COTA 2026: 7.807.8031.8610 Jul 202127 Jun 2026

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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.40 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.80 away.

Targets move as he improves.