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Gian Carlo C. Catambay

3×3 · top 0.62% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2019 · 2019CATA02

Gian Carlo C. Catambay has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.21, set at Pangasinan Puzzle Party 2025, puts him in the top 0.62% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 51st in the Philippines. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 24 competitions since May 2019, he has put 773 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.57 in May 2019 to 6.21, a 46% improvement. Gian has entered 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.62% of 284,439 all-time
6.21
signature single · Pangasinan Puzzle Party 2025
773
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPhilippines
3×36.218.36
top 0.62%51 / 6,270
4×425.9231.08
top 0.96%17 / 2,135
5×552.4156.97
top 2.5%25 / 928
7×72:30.112:42.27
top 3.8%11 / 275
6×61:39.931:44.84
top 4.1%16 / 298
2×21.944.04
top 4.4%140 / 4,257
Pyraminx4.015.97
top 7.7%192 / 2,621
3×3 one-handed15.5320.55
top 9.2%212 / 2,440
Megaminx1:30.251:40.80
top 28.3%214 / 690
3×3 blindfolded2:42.71—
top 47.3%141 / 274
3×3 Fewest Moves40 moves—
early days — 1 solve92 / 189

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

Pangasinan SpeedCubing Open 3 2019: 11.57Baguio City Open 2023: 9.71Pangasinan Speedcubing Open 2023: 9.49Baguio Speedcubing Open 2023: 9.81Playing Puzzles in Pampanga 2023: 8.88MnM Cube Cup 2024: 7.89Pangasinan Puzzle Party 2024: 8.56MnM Caloocan Cubing Fest 2024: 8.35Elyu Cube Clash 2024: 7.96Pampanga Speedcubing Open 2024: 7.92Philippine Championship 2024: 8.43Valenzuela Cubing Open 2024: 7.90Pangasinan Speedcubing Open 2024: 7.41Ayat-Ti Cubing Elyu Fest 2024: 9.14Urdaneta Speedcubing Open 2024: 8.87North Luzon Championship 2024: 6.99Central Luzon Championship 2024: 7.91Just Cube and Go Pangasinan 2024: 8.55Baguio Speedcubing Open 2025: 7.52Philippine Championship 2025: 8.88Elyu Cube Clash II 2025: 8.01Pangasinan Puzzle Party 2025: 6.21Pampanga Speedcubing Open 2025: 7.83Just Cube and Go Pangasinan 2025: 8.596.2111.5719 May 201927 Dec 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.21 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 0.92 away.

Targets move as he improves.