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Hugo Laginha

3×3 blindfolded · top 4.0% of 12,178 all-time · competing since September 2022 · 2022LAGI02

Hugo Laginha has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3 blindfolded: a personal-best single of 29.57, set at Portugal Championship 2024, puts him in the top 4.0% of the 12,178 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2nd in Portugal. Until February 2012, no official 3×3 blindfolded solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since September 2022, he has put 214 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.51 in September 2022 to 10.02, a 26% improvement. Hugo has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 blindfolded
best event — top 4.0% of 12,178 all-time
29.57
signature single · Portugal Championship 2024
214
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPortugal
3×3 blindfolded29.5750.09
top 4.0%2 / 40
3×310.0213.84
top 7.5%41 / 547
3×3 Multi-Blind12 of 12 cubes · 49:46
early days — 3 solves2 / 17
2×23.564.64
top 20.9%104 / 417
Pyraminx7.0310.00
top 28.1%92 / 262
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves37.33
top 30.0%12 / 35
3×3 one-handed36.8247.98
top 60.5%98 / 161
Skewb12.6018.52
top 69.0%135 / 175
Square-143.471:02.82
top 69.4%66 / 96
5×53:30.00
early days — 2 solves87 / 110

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

Chanquete Open 2022: 13.51Lisboa Open 2023: 14.51Azeméis Open 2023: 11.59Seomara Cube Fest 2024: 15.28Vigo Open 2024: 12.50Portugal Championship 2024: 12.79Cubes 'n Tides in Caparica 2024: 10.02Seomara Cube Fest 2025: 12.13Arroios Summer 2025: 13.15Cubing at CNPZ - Alcobaça 2026: 14.1310.0215.2810 Sep 202225 Apr 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-25 3×3 blindfolded single — 355 people have one; it is 4.57 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.02 away.

Targets move as he improves.