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Emmanuel Valderrama Arias

3×3 · top 86.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2024 · 2024ARIA14

Emmanuel Valderrama Arias has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 50.87, set at UH Cube Day Tibas 2025, puts him in the top 86.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 328th in Costa Rica. Across 2 competitions since November 2024, he has put 26 official solves on the record across three events. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:19.66 in November 2024 to 50.87, a 36% improvement. Emmanuel has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 86.6% of 284,439 all-time
50.87
signature single · UH Cube Day Tibas 2025
26
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCosta Rica
3×350.8756.88
top 86.6%328 / 367
Pyraminx17.3019.96
top 88.4%200 / 225
2×215.6922.53
top 91.5%281 / 307

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

Golden Valley Open Heredia 2024: 1:19.66UH Cube Day Tibas 2025: 50.8750.871:19.6617 Nov 202430 Aug 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-50 3×3 single — 244,718 people have one; it is 0.87 away.
  • A sub-15 Pyraminx single — 105,805 people have one; it is 2.30 away.

Targets move as he improves.