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Gabriel Sanchez-Rivera

3×3 · top 2.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2020 · 2020SANC01

Gabriel Sanchez-Rivera has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.95, set at Nub Open Yucaipa 2024, puts him in the top 2.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 132nd in Mexico. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 36 competitions since January 2020, he has put 719 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.35 in January 2020 to 7.95, a 67% improvement. Gabriel has entered 36 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.7% of 284,439 all-time
7.95
signature single · Nub Open Yucaipa 2024
719
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMexico
3×37.9510.19
top 2.7%132 / 4,263
2×22.424.18
top 8.1%417 / 3,018
4×437.6044.25
top 9.4%204 / 1,845
5×51:22.951:31.34
top 21.5%245 / 1,010
Pyraminx8.1312.86
top 37.3%870 / 2,003
6×63:05.833:20.87
top 43.8%229 / 510
7×74:52.175:04.46
top 48.3%227 / 472

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

West LA Winter 2020: 24.35Chula Vista Winter 2023: 10.55Cal Poly SLO Winter 2023: 9.75Circle City Turbocharged 2023: 11.02A Bruin Cube Day Spring 2023: 9.18Cubing in the Valley 2023: 9.44Mountains Open Up 2023: 9.33Give Back RPV 2023: 11.03Pride in Long Beach 2023: 9.03Agoura Cubing 2023: 8.97Rialto Cubing Summer 2023: 9.55Agoura Cubing Again 2023: 9.33CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 11.75University Heights Cubing Winter 2024: 8.57USC Cubing 2024: 9.88Fullerton Winter 2024: 9.57Orange County Newcomers 2024: 9.34Los Angeles Newcomers 2024: 9.92Santa Barbara Cubing 2024: 9.14Nub Open Yucaipa 2024: 7.95Agoura Cubing Returns 2024: 9.44Nub Open Mission Viejo Summer 2024: 9.67La La Land 2024: 9.82CubeChella 2024: 10.04Nub Open Lake Forest 2024: 9.43Santa Barbara Winter 2025: 9.94Agoura Side Events Day 2025: 9.72Burbank Big Cubes 2025: 9.26Let's Cube Long Beach 2025: 10.75Nub Open Mission Viejo Spring 2025: 9.23Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 11.03UCLA Summer 2025: 9.24UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025: 9.74UCSB Favorites 2025: 8.49Huntington Park Winter 2025: 11.32Agoura Winter 2026: 10.297.9524.3525 Jan 202024 Jan 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 1.95 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.42 away.

Targets move as he improves.