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Dale Palmares

3×3 · top 0.18% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2016 · 2016STEP05

Dale Palmares has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.25, set at Cabalen Cubing Fest 2025, puts him in the top 0.18% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 15th in the Philippines. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 126 competitions since July 2016, he has put 4,477 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.03 in July 2016 to 5.25, a 65% improvement. Dale has entered 126 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.18% of 284,439 all-time
5.25
signature single · Cabalen Cubing Fest 2025
4,477
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 79% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPhilippines
3×35.257.29
top 0.18%15 / 6,270
7×72:01.822:11.08
top 0.7%3 / 275
6×61:21.371:29.97
top 0.77%2 / 298
5×545.5752.01
top 0.77%7 / 928
3×3 one-handed9.8412.77
top 0.94%24 / 2,440
Clock3.364.79
top 1.3%9 / 534
4×427.2531.14
top 1.5%34 / 2,135
Pyraminx2.806.49
top 3.0%62 / 2,621
2×21.762.68
top 3.4%92 / 4,257
Skewb3.585.34
top 8.2%123 / 1,320
Megaminx1:04.411:11.54
top 12.3%94 / 690
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves39.33
top 30.0%55 / 189
Square-122.7434.72
top 34.1%150 / 374

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

Johor Open 2016: 15.03INTI IU Open 2016: 11.52Pinoy Big Cubes Open 2016: 10.84Forest City Open 2017: 9.51Singapore Rubik's Cube Competition 2017: 11.02Putra Speedcubing Challenge 2017: 10.49Foon Yew Open 2017: 8.88Malaysia Cube Open 2017: 10.90Bulacan Speedcubing Open 2018: 8.88Buwan ng mga Puso 2018: 9.51Marikina City Open 2018: 8.34Metro Speedcubing Open III 2018: 8.96Antipolo City Cube Open 2018: 7.98ValenZheng Cube Open 2018: 11.21Fairview Cube Day 2018: 8.85PSC Open 2018: 8.45Philippine Championship 2018: 7.16Baguio City Open 2018: 7.73Valenzuela Cube Classic 2019: 7.64Antipolo City Cube Open II 2019: 7.46San Jose Del Monte Cube Open 2019: 6.72Pangasinan SpeedCubing Open 3 2019: 7.76Malaysia 10th Anniversary Cube Open 2019: 6.91Malabon City Cube Open 2019: 7.15Philippine Championship 2019: 7.87Marikina City Open II 2019: 6.93Pinoy Big Cubes Open 2019: 6.97Parity at Charis 2020: 8.10Cube Ala-Eh V 2020: 8.78Summer Warm Up Mangaldan 2022: 7.31Cavite Speedcubing Open 2022: 7.37South Luzon Championship 2022: 6.99Baguio City Open 2023: 8.15Pinoy Big Cubes Open 2023: 6.49Cavite Speedcubing Open IV 2023: 5.72Luzon Championship 2023: 7.19Vista Verde Speedcubing 2023: 6.61Cebu Summer Open 2023: 6.57West Visayas Championship 2023: 7.04Laguna Speedcubing Open II 2023: 8.02San Mateo Speedcubing Open 2023: 6.92Algorithms in Antipolo 2023: 6.34Valenzuela Cubing Open 2023: 7.58Dasmariñas Speedcubing Open 2023: 7.22Quezon City Open 2023: 7.00Baguio Speedcubing Open 2023: 7.46Let's Cube Laguna 2023: 6.74South Luzon Championship 2023: 7.60Visayas Championship 2023: 5.96Cavite Side Events Open 2023: 7.44Cavite Speedcubing Open V 2023: 7.39General Trias Speedcubing Open II 2023: 7.93Marikina City ReMINX 2023: 6.13Playing Puzzles in Pampanga 2023: 7.34Dasmariñas Speedcubing Open II 2023: 7.24Cavite Big Cubes Open 2023: 8.05Cavite Speedcubing Open VI 2023: 8.42Caloocan Year-End Blast 2023: 8.28Pinoy Big Cubes Open 2024: 8.58Santa Cruz Speedcubing 2024: 7.75Cainta Cubing Mania 2024: 6.91MnM Cube Cup 2024: 8.13Imus Speedcubing Open 2024: 6.40Pangasinan Puzzle Party 2024: 6.26Cubing Battle of Katipunan 2024: 7.07Iloilo City of Love Open 2024: 7.16Laguna Speedcubing Open III 2024: 6.96Katipunan One Big F2L 2024: 6.63Beginner's SampaLuck 2024: 6.23Pasig Summer Sides 2024: 7.63Luzon Championship 2024: 8.16Cavite Speedcubing Open VII 2024: 7.46General Trias Speedcubing Open III 2024: 7.34Pampanga Speedcubing Open 2024: 7.86Quezon City Open II 2024: 7.59San Jose del Monte Cube Open II 2024: 7.05Caloocan Cube Craze 2024: 7.59MnM Bulacan Speedcubing Open 2024: 7.44Cavite Speedcubing Open VIII 2024: 7.54Clocked in Quezon City 2024: 7.55Philippine Championship 2024: 7.23Pangasinan Speedcubing Open 2024: 7.22South Luzon Championship 2024: 7.47San Mateo Speedcubing Open 2024: 6.67Davao City Open 2024: 8.18Big n' Blind Caloocan 2024: 8.08Las Piñas Speedcubing Open 2024: 7.96Manila's Blindsided 2024: 7.59Cavite Speedcubing Open IX 2024: 6.86Minx It Up in Pasig 2024: 7.07Makati Speedcubing Open 2024: 7.30Ortigas Fair and Squares 2024: 7.14Turn 'N Solve Bataan 2024: 6.86Turn 'N Solve Bulacan 2024: 7.24Mix-up in Lucena 2024: 7.46Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 8.58Las Piñas Speedcubing Open II 2024: 7.54Turn 'N Solve Marikina 2024: 8.35Luzon Championship 2025: 8.02Cebu Big Cubes 2025: 6.61Imus Speedcubing Open II 2025: 6.47Pinoy Big Cubes Open 2025: 8.05South Luzon Championship 2025: 6.75Makati Speedcubing Open II 2025: 8.23Las Piñas Speedcubing Warm-Up 2025: 7.19Cabalen Cubing Fest 2025: 5.25Dare to DR Rizal 2025: 6.92Just Cube and Go Pangasinan 2025: 6.72Pinoy Big Cubes Open 2026: 8.35Jenra Cubing Summer 2026: 8.29Makati Speedcubing Open VII 2026: 8.13Las Piñas Speedcubing Open IV 2026: 8.58MnM Cube Cup Malolos 2026: 7.75GAN Philippine Championship 2026: 7.745.2515.0331 Jul 20169 Jul 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.25 away.
  • A sub-2:00 7×7 single — 83 people have one; it is 1.82 away.

Targets move as he improves.