People · Peru
Israel Martinez Malpartida
2×2 · top 3.0% of 189,179 all-time · competing since March 2025 · 2025MALP01
Israel Martinez Malpartida has been competing for a year. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.68, set at PUCP Cubing Festival X 2026, puts him in the top 3.0% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 62nd in Peru. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since March 2025, he has put 150 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 2×2 best has come down from 6.39 in April 2025 to 1.68, a 74% improvement. Israel has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Peru | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 1.68 | 3.04 | top 3.0% | 62 / 2,429 | |
| 3×3 | 10.61 | 12.51 | top 9.3% | 404 / 4,362 | |
| 4×4 | 48.55 | 51.50 | top 22.9% | 296 / 850 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 21.74 | 24.43 | top 25.4% | 321 / 821 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 1:43.64 | — | top 27.9% | 38 / 134 | |
| Pyraminx | 14.41 | 16.58 | top 79.6% | 1,069 / 1,371 | |
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 58 moves | — | early days — 2 solves | 75 / 79 |
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
Best single per competition, 2×2. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 7 Dec 2025First sub-20 3×3: 14.52 at PUCP Cubing Festival VIII 2025.
- 7 Dec 2025First sub-15 3×3: 14.52 at PUCP Cubing Festival VIII 2025.
- 7 Dec 2025Three personal bests in one day at PUCP Cubing Festival VIII 2025.
- 19 Jul 2025Three personal bests in one day at PUCP Cubing Festival V 2025.
- 23 Mar 2025First competition: PUCP FMC Attempt 1 - 2025.
Competitions
- Peru Nationals 2026 · 9 Oct 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- PUCP Cubing Festival X 2026 · 21 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- PUCP Cubing Festival IX 2026 · 7 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Steel's Cubes Lima 2026 · 23 Jan 2026 — 1 personal best set
- PUCP Cubing Festival VIII 2025 · 7 Dec 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- PUCP Cubing Festival VII 2025 · 19 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Peru Nationals 2025 · 29 Aug 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- FMC Latin America 2025 · 24 Aug 2025
- PUCP Cubing Festival V 2025 · 19 Jul 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Oso Cubing Fest II Lima 2025 · 31 May 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Plaza Center Cube Lima VI 2025 · 5 Apr 2025
- PUCP FMC Attempt 1 - 2025 · 23 Mar 2025
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.
- Jose Antonio Cuipal Maguiña — met in 33 rounds, finished ahead once
- Pedro Giuseppe Garcia Milla — met in 31 rounds, never finished ahead
- Daniel Leidulvstad Pereda — met in 29 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
Next targets
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.68 away.
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,606 people have one; it is 0.61 away.
Targets move as he improves.