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Brandon Delacruz

3×3 · top 1.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2010 · 2010DELA01

Brandon Delacruz has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.41, set at Rutgers Spring 2018, puts him in the top 1.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,113th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 49 competitions since November 2010, he has put 1,695 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.41 in November 2010 to 7.41, a 62% improvement. Brandon has entered 49 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.9% of 284,439 all-time
7.41
signature single · Rutgers Spring 2018
1,695
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.419.11
top 1.9%1,113 / 59,724
4×429.3034.58
top 2.4%396 / 19,072
5×556.961:00.49
top 4.1%339 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed13.4816.14
top 5.2%739 / 15,683
7×72:44.982:54.19
top 6.6%181 / 3,184
6×61:51.781:58.64
top 7.9%272 / 4,196
2×22.914.55
top 13.2%5,203 / 40,951
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 5 cubes · 30:01—
early days — 2 solves271 / 731
3×3 blindfolded2:19.55—
top 39.8%839 / 2,092
3×3 Fewest Moves44 moves—
top 62.5%1,310 / 2,040
Square-11:33.25—
early days — 2 solves6,503 / 6,743

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

Princeton Fall 2010: 19.41St. Joseph's College Winter 2011: 17.16Newark Head to Head 2011: 18.50Park Ridge Open 2011: 16.34Hackley Summer 2011: 11.75United States National Championships 2011: 13.47Yale Fall 2011: 13.80River Hill Winter 2012: 13.43Newark Head to Head 2012: 12.40Harvard Spring 2012: 13.36Jersey Shore Open 2012: 13.36United States National Championships 2012: 10.83Yale Fall 2012: 10.43Princeton Spring 2013: 9.94World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 11.77Starlight Open 2013: 8.02Liberty Science Center Open 2013: 8.45Princeton Winter 2014: 10.08CCFC BLD Day 2014: 10.82US Nationals 2014: 8.66Red Cross Cubing Open 2014: 9.00Slow n Steady Spring 2015: 10.48Red Cross Cubing Open 2016: 9.76Big Apple Spring 2016: 9.81Northeastern Spring 2016: 9.22Melrose Summer 2016: 8.95US Nationals 2016: 8.95Sharon Summer 2016: 8.60New York City Summer 2016: 10.02New York City Winter 2017: 10.39Big Cube Bash 2017: 7.97CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 8.87World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 9.59Framingham Frozen Fingers 2018: 8.70New York City Winter 2018: 8.64Rutgers Spring 2018: 7.41Hudson Valley Winter 2019: 8.78SBU Spring 2019: 7.62Hudson Valley Summer 2019: 8.37CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 7.94Brooklyn Fall 2019: 8.09SBU Fall 2019: 9.65Connecticut Spring 2023: 8.29CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 8.06Cubes on the Bayside Winter 2024: 8.00Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 8.94Hudson Valley Winter 2025: 9.747.4119.416 Nov 201026 Jan 2025

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.41 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 4.30 away.

Targets move as he improves.