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Gilberto Martinez Perales

2×2 · top 7.3% of 186,767 all-time · competing since September 2024 · 2024PERA04

Gilberto Martinez Perales has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.33, set at Aguascalientes Summer 2025, puts him in the top 7.3% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 268th in Mexico. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since September 2024, he has put 240 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 94% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His Pyraminx best has come down from 11.31 in September 2024 to 4.64, a 59% improvement. Gilberto has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 7.3% of 186,767 all-time
2.33
signature single · Aguascalientes Summer 2025
240
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 94% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMexico
2×22.334.66
top 7.3%268 / 3,018
Pyraminx4.646.83
top 11.0%270 / 2,003
3×3 blindfolded56.611:09.30
top 11.9%26 / 251
3×313.9616.28
top 20.8%1,146 / 4,263
4×4 blindfolded6:02.07
early days — 3 solves13 / 38
4×455.701:05.62
top 31.6%710 / 1,845
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 5 cubes · 20:51
early days — 3 solves24 / 87
Skewb8.3318.67
top 43.8%590 / 1,157
3×3 one-handed32.1436.85
top 51.5%933 / 1,672
Megaminx2:34.92
top 63.6%701 / 1,042
5×53:14.18
early days — 2 solves878 / 1,010

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

Salamanca Guanajuato 2024: 11.31Zapopan Open 2025: 7.02Rubí Guanajuato 2025: 4.94Aguascalientes Summer 2025: 4.64Xidoo 2025: 5.10Mexican Championship 2025: 5.47Caminos de Guanajuato - León 2026: 4.754.6411.3114 Sep 202412 Apr 2026

Best single per competition, Pyraminx. 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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.33 away.
  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.64 away.

Targets move as he improves.