People · Brazil
Diego Paulo de Sousa
Clock · top 9.3% of 32,048 all-time · competing since January 2025 · 2025SOUS01
Diego Paulo de Sousa has been competing for a year. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 6.56, set at Curitiba Contra o Tempo 2026, puts him in the top 9.3% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 58th in Brazil. Until June 2010, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since January 2025, he has put 222 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 5 DNFs. His Clock best has come down from 24.26 in January 2025 to 6.56, a 73% improvement. Diego has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Brazil | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clock | 6.56 | 8.41 | top 9.3% | 58 / 723 | |
| 2×2 | 6.73 | 16.68 | top 58.2% | 2,334 / 5,137 | |
| Pyraminx | 11.92 | 21.40 | top 66.7% | 1,775 / 3,208 | |
| 3×3 | 38.89 | 45.65 | top 75.6% | 5,902 / 9,644 |
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, Clock. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 4 Oct 2025First sub-60 3×3: 58.27 at II Campos do Jordão Open 2025.
- 18 Jan 2025First competition: Golden Square Shopping 2025.
Competitions
- I Rei do Cubo Cubatão 2026 · 22 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Luminous Sol Open 2026 · 25 Jul 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Golden Square Shopping 2026 · 11 Jul 2026 — 1 personal best set
- SESI Cubatão 2026 · 13 Jun 2026
- SAJ Águas da Prata 2026 · 6 Jun 2026 — 1 personal best set
- FECAP 2026 · 23 May 2026
- INUMP São Paulo 2026 · 25 Apr 2026
- Shopping Parque da Cidade 2026 · 11 Apr 2026
- Forgotten O'Clocks SBC 2026 · 28 Mar 2026
- Mega Geek Festival 2026 · 22 Mar 2026
- Guará Garage 2026 · 21 Feb 2026
- Curitiba Contra o Tempo 2026 · 7 Feb 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Itapeva 2026 · 24 Jan 2026 — 1 personal best set
- SESI Cubatão 2025 · 8 Nov 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- II Golden Square Shopping 2025 · 25 Oct 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- II Campos do Jordão Open 2025 · 4 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Bora Bora Quick Rio 2025 · 21 Sep 2025
- Desafio Nipo-Brasileiro BH 2025 · 20 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Forgotten O'Minx SBC 2025 · 2 Aug 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Campeonato Brasileiro de Cubo Mágico 2025 · 18 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- SAJ Águas da Prata 2025 · 7 Jun 2025
- Aquático Aclimação Open 2025 · 18 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Forgotten O'Clocks SBC 2025 · 12 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Campos do Jordão Open 2025 · 15 Feb 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Golden Square Shopping 2025 · 18 Jan 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.
- Luiz Fernando Santos de Sousa — met in 50 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Fabio Bini Graciose — met in 44 rounds, finished ahead 12 times
- Caio Hideaki Sato — met in 41 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-6 Clock single — 2,324 people have one; it is 0.56 away.
- A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 0.73 away.
Targets move as he improves.