People · Spain
Eric Costa Xiong
2×2 · top 7.3% of 186,767 all-time · competing since February 2025 · 2025XION02
Eric Costa Xiong has been competing for a year. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.33, set at Velilla Open 2025, puts him in the top 7.3% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 286th in Spain. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since February 2025, he has put 434 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 58% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.34 in February 2025 to 10.79, a 30% improvement. Eric has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Spain | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 2.33 | 3.67 | top 7.3% | 286 / 3,845 | |
| 3×3 | 10.79 | 12.24 | top 9.8% | 390 / 5,141 | |
| Megaminx | 1:00.84 | 1:13.53 | top 10.5% | 76 / 874 | |
| Square-1 | 13.03 | 21.50 | top 12.0% | 64 / 604 | |
| 4×4 | 42.30 | 47.53 | top 14.9% | 203 / 1,762 | |
| 5×5 | 1:18.31 | 1:33.14 | top 17.8% | 118 / 863 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 23.08 | 29.05 | top 29.0% | 310 / 1,315 | |
| Pyraminx | 7.73 | 10.39 | top 34.0% | 1,006 / 2,865 | |
| 6×6 | 2:53.81 | 3:27.76 | top 38.0% | 104 / 316 | |
| 7×7 | 7:54.07 | — | early days — 1 solve | 211 / 260 |
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, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 4 Jul 2026Three personal bests in one day at Parla Open 2026.
- 6 Dec 2025Four personal bests in one day at Spanish Championship 2025.
- 8 Nov 2025Four personal bests in one day at Madrid Norte Open 2025.
- 23 Aug 2025Four personal bests in one day at Ocaña BotijOpen 2025.
- 28 Jun 2025Three personal bests in one day at Parla Open 2025.
- 24 May 2025Three personal bests in one day at X-Madrid Open 2025.
Competitions
- Arganda Open 2026 · 25 Jul 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Parla Open 2026 · 4 Jul 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Móstoles Open 2026 · 9 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Spanish Championship 2025 · 6 Dec 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Madrid Norte Open 2025 · 8 Nov 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Ocaña BotijOpen 2025 · 23 Aug 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Parla Open 2025 · 28 Jun 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- UC3M Leganés Open 2025 · 14 Jun 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- X-Madrid Open 2025 · 24 May 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Margarita Burón Open 2025 · 22 Mar 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Velilla Open 2025 · 1 Mar 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- URJC Open 2025 · 15 Feb 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Huashang: Las Tablas Open 2025 · 1 Feb 2025 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Yago Malleiro Cellitti — met in 91 rounds, finished ahead 20 times
- Francisco Montañés Barbudo — met in 88 rounds, finished ahead 61 times
- Mikel Pérez Iniesto — met in 84 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
Next targets
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.33 away.
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.79 away.
Targets move as he improves.