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Axel Uriel Sánchez Zúñiga

4×4 · top 2.1% of 83,917 all-time · competing since November 2017 · 2017ZUNI05

Axel Uriel Sánchez Zúñiga has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 28.69, set at Ruta Cubera Queretaro NxN 2025, puts him in the top 2.1% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 35th in Mexico. Until April 2012, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 49 competitions since November 2017, he has put 2,020 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.13 in November 2017 to 8.14, a 33% improvement. Axel has entered 49 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 2.1% of 83,917 all-time
28.69
signature single · Ruta Cubera Queretaro NxN 2025
2,020
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 79% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMexico
4×428.6933.27
top 2.1%35 / 1,845
2×21.533.09
top 2.3%74 / 3,018
5×553.431:01.74
top 2.8%23 / 1,010
3×38.1410.08
top 3.0%146 / 4,263
7×72:30.242:34.13
top 3.8%10 / 472
6×61:40.251:49.01
top 4.2%16 / 510
3×3 one-handed14.5019.48
top 7.1%125 / 1,672
Pyraminx4.917.93
top 12.6%312 / 2,003
Skewb4.7910.21
top 16.6%254 / 1,157
Megaminx1:16.021:22.89
top 19.3%213 / 1,042
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves44.33
top 30.0%65 / 317
Square-128.9537.52
top 47.5%224 / 516
Clock18.7019.97
top 60.9%423 / 652
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 16:08—
early days — 1 solve51 / 87
3×3 blindfolded4:30.815:56.77
top 74.6%153 / 251

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

Return Open 2017: 12.13TimerTon 2018: 11.71Cuernavaca Summer 2018: 11.88Tula 2018: 12.60Plata Open Taxco 2018: 10.57 Tlaxcallan 2019: 11.58Tunas Open 2019: 10.59Izcube 2019: 10.87Tuzo Clásico 2019: 10.66Side Events Puebla 2019: 10.55La Silla 2019: 8.81NxN Tlaxcala 2019: 12.35Misión México 2019: 11.17Reto Chignahuapan 2019: 9.72Roble Cubing Open 2019: 9.46Quetzal Cubing 2019: 10.14La Silla II 2019: 9.81Pitic Open 2020: 8.96Tunas Open 2022: 8.14Fénix México 2022: 9.13La Silla III 2022: 9.80IZcube 2023: 8.92Zaragoza Open 2023: 10.18TizaCubing 2023: 8.59Speed Cubing Fest Pachuca 2023: 8.21CICEJ Guadalajara 2023: 8.26Volcano in Puebla 2023: 9.62Mexican Championship 2023: 10.24Rubí Guanajuato 2024: 10.13 Vasconcubos 2024: 9.96Puebla de Zaragoza Open 2024: 8.59Texcoco Open Z 2024: 9.15D Amicis Puebla 2024: 9.53Los Fuertes V2 Puebla 2024: 8.93Mega-Mente Puebla 2025: 9.92La Silla V Monterrey 2025: 8.60Todo o Nada - San Andrés Cholula 2025: 9.19Mexican Championship 2025: 10.48Halcones Tehuacán 2026: 9.11Baja Spring 2026: 9.77WCA South American Championship 2026: 10.478.1412.6018 Nov 201712 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-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 3.69 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.53 away.

Targets move as he improves.