People · Colombia
David Santiago Cortés Prieto
3×3 · top 1.5% of 288,433 all-time · competing since February 2025 · 2025PRIE01
David Santiago Cortés Prieto has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.17, set at WCA South American Championship 2026, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 49th in Colombia. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since February 2025, he has put 450 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 64% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.03 in February 2025 to 7.17, a 35% improvement. David has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Colombia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 7.17 | 9.54 | top 1.5% | 49 / 5,867 | |
| 2×2 | 2.09 | 2.86 | top 5.4% | 178 / 3,643 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 15.63 | 22.82 | top 9.5% | 97 / 1,192 | |
| 4×4 | 50.30 | 1:00.68 | top 25.2% | 340 / 1,284 | |
| Pyraminx | 7.68 | 15.43 | top 33.6% | 759 / 2,423 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 2 Mar 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.73 at Edén Bogotá 2025.
- 2 Mar 2025Three personal bests in one day at Edén Bogotá 2025.
- 15 Feb 2025First competition: Avenida Chile XX 2025. A 11.03 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Proyección Social UD IV 2026 · 26 Sep 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Avenida Chile XXXVI 2026 · 9 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Unicentro Yopal 2026 · 11 Jul 2026 — 1 personal best set
- WCA South American Championship 2026 · 12 Jun 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Zipaquirá Cundinamarca III 2026 · 24 May 2026
- Proyección Social III - Big Cubes Bogotá 2026 · 2 May 2026
- Puro 3x3 Bulevar Niza Bogotá 2026 · 19 Apr 2026 — 1 personal best set
- 75 por Ciento Bogotá 2026 · 4 Apr 2026
- Avenida Chile XXXII 2026 · 15 Mar 2026
- Bima al Cubo II Bogotá 2025 · 14 Dec 2025
- Avenida Chile XXVIII 2025 · 30 Nov 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- 75 por Ciento Bogotá 2025 · 18 Oct 2025
- Avenida Chile XXVI 2025 · 28 Sep 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Avenida Chile XXIV 2025 · 20 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Metrópolis Bogotá 2025 · 15 Jun 2025
- Avenida Chile XXII 2025 · 18 May 2025
- Avenida Chile XXI 2025 · 20 Apr 2025
- Edén Bogotá II 2025 · 5 Apr 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Edén Bogotá 2025 · 2 Mar 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Avenida Chile XX 2025 · 15 Feb 2025
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.
- Dennis Rosero — met in 78 rounds, finished ahead 64 times
- Eduard Esteban García Domínguez — met in 68 rounds, finished ahead 50 times
- Axel Juan Pablo Moreno Rodriguez — met in 63 rounds, finished ahead 52 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.17 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.09 away.
Targets move as he improves.