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David Montenegro

3×3 · top 0.21% of 288,433 all-time · competing since May 2024 · 2024MONT23

David Montenegro has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.35, set at WCA South American Championship 2026, puts him in the top 0.21% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in Panama. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since May 2024, he has put 670 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 77% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.24 in May 2024 to 5.35, a 42% improvement. David has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.21% of 288,433 all-time
5.35
signature single · WCA South American Championship 2026
670
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 77% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPanama
3×35.356.50
top 0.21%1 / 283
3×3 one-handed10.9212.45
top 1.8%1 / 80
5×550.791:01.74
top 2.0%1 / 38
Skewb2.374.89
top 2.4%3 / 68
2×21.672.75
top 2.9%1 / 192
4×430.7532.39
top 3.4%3 / 71
Pyraminx3.366.63
top 4.9%5 / 110
Megaminx1:02.401:09.69
top 11.3%7 / 42
Square-113.4822.02
top 13.0%3 / 17
Clock8.1610.05
top 15.9%7 / 40
6×62:27.462:44.30
top 24.4%6 / 17
3×3 Fewest Moves41 moves42.00
top 51.9%8 / 16

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

Skewb Wins Panamá 2024: 9.24Desafío 50 Años Altaplaza 2024: 9.21Panama Nationals 2024: 9.21Desafío Rubik's 50 Años Panamá 2024: 7.83Dolphin Cup ISP 2024: 7.61Guararé Cubing 2024: 7.09Back to School Boquete 2025: 8.27IPA Cubing 2025: 5.98Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.24Beyond the Cube PTY 2025: 6.76Dolphin Cup ISP II 2025: 6.91Cubing C3 2025: 6.59Panama Nationals 2025: 7.80Cubing Herrera 2026: 7.04UTP Speedcubing Open 2026: 6.46WCA South American Championship 2026: 5.35Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 6.40Road to Nats: El Dorado 2026: 5.465.359.2418 May 202417 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-5 3×3 single — 355 people have one; it is 0.35 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 800 people have one; it is 0.92 away.

Targets move as he improves.