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Ivan Ruiz

3×3 · top 4.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2020 · 2020RUIZ01

Ivan Ruiz has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.76, set at Tulsa Holiday Cube-Off 2025, puts him in the top 4.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,403rd in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since February 2020, he has put 757 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.61 in February 2020 to 8.76, a 69% improvement. Ivan has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.3% of 284,439 all-time
8.76
signature single · Tulsa Holiday Cube-Off 2025
757
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.7610.85
top 4.3%2,403 / 59,724
2×21.942.51
top 4.4%1,731 / 40,951
Skewb3.326.56
top 6.7%1,031 / 18,907
Square-112.0317.99
top 10.0%699 / 6,743
Pyraminx4.528.91
top 10.3%2,692 / 28,708
Clock6.948.84
top 10.7%826 / 8,927
Megaminx1:11.061:18.07
top 16.3%1,113 / 7,841
4×444.9653.09
top 18.3%2,777 / 19,072
5×51:44.401:58.78
top 38.6%3,104 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed27.2034.25
top 39.9%5,309 / 15,683
6×64:51.365:35.75
early days — 3 solves3,193 / 4,196

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

Frisco Liberty Cubing 2020: 28.61Arkansolve 2023: 11.87Twisters in Tulsa 2023: 11.91DFW Cubing Summer 2023: 11.40Air Capital Cubing Summer 2023: 12.57Oklahoma Fall 2023: 9.57OKC Cube-Off Winter 2024: 10.17Oklahoma Afternoon Twist 2024: 11.21CubingUSA Southern Championship 2024: 8.94OKC Holiday Cube-Off 2024: 10.90Welcome Back Tulsa 2025: 11.04Oklahoma Championship 2025: 10.90OKC Unorthodox Blocks 2025: 10.71Tulsa Holiday Cube-Off 2025: 8.76Cube Against Cancer Tulsa 2026: 9.46Oklahoma Championship 2026: 9.84GAN Southern Championship 2026: 9.258.7628.611 Feb 202011 Jun 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.76 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.94 away.

Targets move as he improves.