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Eli Valera

3×3 · top 0.52% of 288,433 all-time · competing since July 2017 · 2017VALE13

Eli Valera has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.05, set at Davis Spring 2025, puts him in the top 0.52% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 354th in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 33 competitions since July 2017, he has put 1,254 official solves on the record across twelve 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 32.82 in July 2017 to 6.05, an 82% improvement. Eli has entered 33 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.52% of 288,433 all-time
6.05
signature single · Davis Spring 2025
1,254
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.058.15
top 0.52%354 / 60,666
2×21.162.14
top 0.93%396 / 41,674
4×426.2930.44
top 1.1%186 / 19,354
Megaminx38.4142.22
top 1.2%80 / 8,026
5×548.8958.09
top 1.5%129 / 9,537
Pyraminx2.493.44
top 2.2%579 / 29,168
3×3 one-handed11.7114.42
top 2.7%427 / 15,900
Clock4.255.58
top 2.8%242 / 9,172
Square-18.1812.52
top 3.3%244 / 6,846
Skewb2.794.09
top 4.0%638 / 19,164
6×61:51.502:05.44
top 7.8%273 / 4,262
7×73:12.833:24.61
top 14.2%400 / 3,236

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

San Ramon 2017: 32.82Folsom Summer 2024: 8.99Davis Summer 2024: 8.60Cool Down Berkeley 2024: 8.96Berkeley Winter 2025: 8.83Berkeley Spring 2025: 7.27Berkeley March Weekday NxN 2025: 8.63Davis Spring 2025: 6.05Nevada Championship 2025: 7.31SacCubing XX 2025: 8.50Belmont Spring 2025: 7.63Davis Summer 2025: 8.39Benicia Open 2025: 8.73Berkeley September Weekday 2025: 9.09San Ramon Fall 2025: 8.66SacCubing XXI 2025: 8.70Berkeley Fall 2025: 8.35Dublin California Open 2025: 8.03SacCubing XXII 2026: 6.98Berkeley February Weekday 2026: 7.38Davis Winter 2026: 7.97Davis Winter Weeknight 2026: 8.49Yuba City Spring 2026: 8.30Berkeley Spring 2026: 7.03Davis Spring Sunset 2026: 8.01Belmont Spring 2026: 8.21West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2026: 8.03Mountain House Open 2026: 8.00Davis Big Summer 2026: 7.26SacCubing XXIV 2026: 7.636.0532.8215 Jul 201720 Sep 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-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.05 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.16 away.

Targets move as he improves.