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Ayden Kainalu A. Bueno

3×3 blindfolded · top 0.4% of 12,178 all-time · competing since March 2023 · 2023BUEN02

Ayden Kainalu A. Bueno has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3 blindfolded: a personal-best single of 16.10, set at Warm Up Seattle 2025, puts him in the top 0.4% of the 12,178 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 15th in the United States. Until August 2019, no official 3×3 blindfolded solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since March 2023, he has put 773 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.70 in March 2023 to 6.14, a 37% improvement. Ayden has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 blindfolded
best event — top 0.4% of 12,178 all-time
16.10
signature single · Warm Up Seattle 2025
773
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 blindfolded16.1020.83
top 0.4%15 / 2,092
3×36.147.53
top 0.57%382 / 59,724
5×552.4858.54
top 2.5%196 / 9,401
2×21.623.04
top 2.7%1,049 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed11.8414.84
top 2.8%439 / 15,683
4×432.3435.77
top 4.4%709 / 19,072
Clock6.487.38
top 9.0%702 / 8,927
Pyraminx4.477.85
top 10.1%2,619 / 28,708
Megaminx1:16.191:21.64
top 19.4%1,325 / 7,841
Skewb5.599.87
top 22.6%3,610 / 18,907
6×62:40.542:51.56
top 31.0%1,096 / 4,196
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 5 cubes · 13:59—
early days — 3 solves262 / 731
7×74:17.524:30.53
early days — 3 solves1,030 / 3,184
Square-126.1534.34
top 41.8%2,713 / 6,743
3×3 Fewest Moves41 moves44.33
early days — 3 solves1,101 / 2,040
4×4 blindfolded22:34.00—
early days — 1 solve406 / 440

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

Central Washington Odds 2023: 9.70Welcome to Olympia 2023: 10.54Lakewood Spring 2023: 9.34Kent Spring 2023: 9.39Bothell Summer 2023: 8.62Maltby Mega Special 2023: 8.78Canadian Championship 2023: 9.46Richmond Summer Open 2023: 8.05SnoCo Has Too Much 3x3 2023: 7.77Kent Summer 2023: 7.48Lucky Lynnwood 2023: 8.02Kenmore Mini B 2024: 7.71Kent Spring 2024: 7.48CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024: 6.24Warmup for Worlds Olympia 2025: 6.89Kent Spring 2025: 6.51Warm Up Seattle 2025: 6.93Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.94 Bellevue Cubing Afternoon 2025: 6.82Elyu Cube Clash III 2026: 6.82BC Championship 2026: 6.146.1410.5411 Mar 20237 Aug 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-15 3×3 blindfolded single — 19 people have one; it is 1.10 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.14 away.

Targets move as he improves.