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Elijah Perez

3×3 · top 2.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022PERE12

Elijah Perez has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.62, set at Yuba City Fall 2025, puts him in the top 2.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,283rd in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since May 2022, he has put 488 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 92% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.44 in May 2022 to 7.62, a 43% improvement. Elijah has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.2% of 284,439 all-time
7.62
signature single · Yuba City Fall 2025
488
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 92% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.6210.34
top 2.2%1,283 / 59,724
2×22.244.30
top 6.5%2,588 / 40,951
4×435.7441.86
top 7.4%1,129 / 19,072
Pyraminx5.438.82
top 16.0%4,221 / 28,708
5×51:21.751:28.75
top 20.5%1,600 / 9,401
7×73:39.304:02.83
early days — 3 solves660 / 3,184
3×3 one-handed22.6127.68
top 27.7%3,576 / 15,683
6×62:51.722:59.06
top 36.9%1,336 / 4,196
Megaminx1:48.792:03.02
top 39.7%2,863 / 7,841
Clock14.0915.31
top 44.2%3,554 / 8,927
Square-127.7645.24
top 45.1%2,933 / 6,743
Skewb11.6815.44
top 64.4%11,973 / 18,907

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

Bay Area Speedcubin' 32 LIVE - SSF 2022: 13.44SacCubing XII 2022: 11.04Reno Fall 2022: 10.38SacCubing XIII 2023: 10.25Bay Area Speedcubin' 43 2023: 12.20CubingUSA Western Championship 2023: 10.43Folsom Winter 2023: 10.35Davis Winter 2024: 9.86Redding Fall 2024: 9.90Cool Down Berkeley 2024: 11.00Yuba City Fall 2025: 7.62Temecula Valley Winter 2025: 9.81SacCubing XXII 2026: 8.88Duper Super Davis Spring 2026: 10.17Cubing in the Park Reno 2026: 9.66Davis Big Summer 2026: 8.807.6213.4422 May 20228 Aug 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 — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.62 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.24 away.

Targets move as he improves.