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Elías Ayala Oliveros

3×3 · top 3.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2025 · 2025OLIV05

Elías Ayala Oliveros has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.12, set at Caminos de Guanajuato - SJI 2026, puts him in the top 3.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 144th in Mexico. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since February 2025, he has put 236 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 9% around a typical one, steadier than 99% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 3 DNFs. His Pyraminx best has come down from 11.12 in February 2025 to 3.50, a 69% improvement. He has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.0% of 284,439 all-time
8.12
signature single · Caminos de Guanajuato - SJI 2026
236
official solves on the record
9%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 99% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMexico
3×38.129.43
top 3.0%144 / 4,263
2×21.893.20
top 4.1%142 / 3,018
Pyraminx3.505.28
top 5.5%135 / 2,003
3×3 one-handed17.0221.28
top 12.6%232 / 1,672
4×443.4949.75
top 16.4%366 / 1,845
Skewb4.787.78
top 16.5%251 / 1,157
Clock13.6119.30
top 42.2%296 / 652
5×51:51.85
early days — 2 solves494 / 1,010
7×75:12.59
early days — 1 solve251 / 472
Megaminx2:51.22
early days — 2 solves767 / 1,042
3×3 Fewest Moves51 moves
early days — 2 solves238 / 317

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

Ruta Cubera Salamanca SE 2025: 11.12444 Puebla 2025: 16.98SMA Open 2025: 11.56Nawi Tlaxcala 2026: 4.88Tlaxcala Open 10 Aniversario 2026: 3.50Caminos de Guanajuato - SJI 2026: 4.13Icpitl Tlaxcala 2026: 3.943.5016.9815 Feb 20258 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, Pyraminx. 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 0.12 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.89 away.

Targets move as he improves.