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Axel Saúl Meza Saldarriaga

2×2 · top 7.5% of 186,767 all-time · competing since October 2024 · 2024SALD06

Axel Saúl Meza Saldarriaga has been competing for a year. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.35, set at Granollers Open 2025, puts him in the top 7.5% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 295th in Spain. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since October 2024, he has put 741 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.52 in October 2024 to 16.31, a 51% improvement. Axel has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 7.5% of 186,767 all-time
2.35
signature single · Granollers Open 2025
741
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSpain
2×22.355.15
top 7.5%295 / 3,845
Pyraminx5.398.21
top 15.7%504 / 2,865
Skewb5.048.62
top 18.5%425 / 1,685
3×316.3118.56
top 28.8%1,206 / 5,141
Clock10.8713.62
top 29.5%233 / 876
Megaminx1:36.791:54.77
top 32.6%217 / 874
4×41:01.111:11.55
top 37.7%562 / 1,762
5×52:10.092:30.00
top 55.5%395 / 863
3×3 one-handed39.7448.09
top 64.9%811 / 1,315
Square-142.2051.59
top 68.0%364 / 604
6×64:08.144:15.67
early days — 3 solves198 / 316

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

Andorran Championship 2024: 33.52Barcelona Open 2024: 26.20Canet d'en Berenguer Open 2024: 22.88Tarragona Open 2024: 26.44Parets Open 2025: 30.49Vilafranca Open 2025: 27.31Girona Open 2025: 25.05CubingVic 2025: 21.21Granollers Open 2025: 17.69Santpedor Open 2025: 18.17Girona Summer Open 2025: 21.08Minyons de Terrassa Open 2025: 16.92Andorran Championship 2025: 18.26Tarraco Open 2025: 18.98Spanish Championship 2025: 20.40Vilafranca Open 2026: 21.36Parets Open 2026: 17.68Canet d'en Berenguer Open 2026: 19.52GAN CubingVic 2026: 17.12Santpedor Open 2026: 16.3116.3133.5212 Oct 202420 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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.35 away.
  • A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.39 away.

Targets move as he improves.