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Claudio Ramón Castillo Salazar

5×5 · top 2.4% of 41,402 all-time · competing since October 2016 · 2016SALA16

Claudio Ramón Castillo Salazar has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 5×5: a personal-best single of 51.92, set at WCA South American Championship 2026, puts him in the top 2.4% of the 41,402 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 16th in Mexico. Until September 2012, no official 5×5 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 38 competitions since October 2016, he has put 1,790 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 75% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.87 in October 2016 to 8.16, a 49% improvement. Claudio has entered 38 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

5×5
best event — top 2.4% of 41,402 all-time
51.92
signature single · WCA South American Championship 2026
1,790
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMexico
5×551.9259.51
top 2.4%16 / 1,012
3×38.1610.62
top 3.1%153 / 4,305
4×430.4033.26
top 3.1%59 / 1,858
6×61:39.891:46.42
top 4.1%15 / 510
7×72:37.392:43.02
top 5.1%19 / 476
3×3 one-handed15.1618.54
top 8.5%149 / 1,685
Pyraminx4.327.72
top 9.3%233 / 2,014
2×22.764.22
top 11.6%453 / 3,043
Skewb4.507.51
top 14.5%223 / 1,176
Megaminx1:11.681:22.43
top 16.7%192 / 1,063
Clock13.3317.85
top 41.0%299 / 660
Square-127.8035.31
top 45.3%218 / 525
3×3 Fewest Moves50 moves—
early days — 2 solves227 / 317

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

Speedcube Baja Open 2016: 15.87Pitic Open 2020: 13.69Speedcube Baja Open 2022: 12.16La Silla III 2022: 12.97Pitic Open 2023: 11.58Jaguar Open 2023: 10.40Baja Spring 2023: 11.33Minerva Guadalajara 2023: 11.07IZcube 2023: 10.85Jaguar Open V2 2023: 9.56Toros Open 2023: 10.77Búfalo Open 2023: 9.16Speedcube Baja Open 2023: 10.48Ice Cube Tijuana Open 2023: 10.73Mexican Championship 2023: 8.80Baja Spring 2024: 9.69Mexicali Rose 2024: 9.73Tutuli 2024: 9.91La Silla lV Monterrey 2024: 11.01Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 11.48Speedcube Baja Open 2024: 9.99El Centinela Mexicali 2024: 9.82Baja Spring 2025: 10.13La Silla V Monterrey 2025: 9.18Mexicali Rose 2025: 10.10Cubing by the Border Tijuana 2025: 9.54Dunas en Mexicali 2025: 9.65SpeedCube Baja Open 2025: 9.31El Centinela Mexicali 2025: 10.87Mexican Championship 2025: 10.60Halcones Tehuacán 2026: 8.59Flaming Mexicali 2026: 9.10WCA South American Championship 2026: 9.17La Silla VI Monterrey 2026: 9.38Speedcube Baja Open 2026: 8.168.1615.8716 Oct 201617 Oct 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-50 5×5 single — 733 people have one; it is 1.92 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.16 away.

Targets move as he improves.