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Gustavo Mendoza

3×3 · top 40.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2017 · 2017MEND20

Gustavo Mendoza has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 20.19, set at Austin Spring Open 2025, puts him in the top 40.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 23,017th in the United States. Across 11 competitions since July 2017, he has put 104 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 21% around a typical one; 99% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.75 in July 2017 to 20.19, a 27% improvement. Gustavo has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 40.5% of 284,439 all-time
20.19
signature single · Austin Spring Open 2025
104
official solves on the record
21%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 99% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×320.1928.16
top 40.5%23,017 / 59,724
2×26.4810.83
top 55.8%22,816 / 40,951
4×41:50.42
top 76.9%14,122 / 19,072
Square-11:21.42
early days — 3 solves6,332 / 6,743
5×54:29.07
early days — 2 solves9,000 / 9,401

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

Southern Championships 2017: 27.75Yeehaw 2017: 20.52Howdy Partner 2018: 29.90CubingUSA Southern Championship 2018: 28.48Bayou Bash 2018: 24.58Lone Star Cubing 2019: 24.75CubingUSA Southern Championship 2023: 28.97Space City Summer 2023: 24.77Vanderbilt Winter 2025: 26.39Austin Spring Open 2025: 20.19DFW Qualifier 2025: 26.3820.1929.9015 Jul 201718 May 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.

  • Dylan Miller — met in 20 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Riley Norrid — met in 19 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Matt Lee — met in 19 rounds, never finished ahead

Next targets

  • A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 0.19 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 0.48 away.

Targets move as he improves.