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Davis Joel Fonseca Rios

3×3 · top 4.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2018 · 2018RIOS04

Davis Joel Fonseca Rios has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.60, set at Panama Nationals 2022, puts him in the top 4.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 11th in Panama. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since December 2018, he has put 522 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.59 in December 2018 to 8.60, a 10% improvement. Davis has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.0% of 284,439 all-time
8.60
signature single · Panama Nationals 2022
522
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPanama
3×38.6010.40
top 4.0%11 / 278
2×21.903.14
top 4.1%6 / 192
4×435.0840.96
top 6.8%8 / 71
Megaminx59.111:10.30
top 9.5%5 / 36
Pyraminx4.418.06
top 9.8%11 / 110
3×3 one-handed16.4719.63
top 11.3%13 / 77
5×51:18.591:20.55
top 18.0%8 / 33
Skewb5.448.65
top 21.5%18 / 65
Clock13.6515.99
top 42.4%14 / 40
6×63:09.873:29.67
early days — 3 solves8 / 17
3×3 Fewest Moves40 moves
early days — 2 solves5 / 16
7×74:59.255:00.45
early days — 3 solves6 / 14

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

Cubing Chiriquí 2018: 9.59Bekubes Gold 2019: 9.35Cubing Chiriquí 2019: 9.85Panamá Kocka 2019: 9.04Back To Cubing Chiriquí 2022: 9.05Boquete Big Cubes 2022: 9.59UNACHI Open 2022: 9.17Panama Nationals 2022: 8.60Cubing USMA 2023: 9.68IPA Cubing 2025: 9.328.609.8515 Dec 201824 May 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.60 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.90 away.

Targets move as he improves.