People · United States
Jacob Salvanera
3×3 · top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2019 · 2019SALV07
Jacob Salvanera has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.16, set at UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 914th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since August 2019, he has put 105 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.72 in August 2019 to 7.16, a 48% improvement. Jacob has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 7.16 | 8.76 | top 1.5% | 914 / 59,724 | |
| 4×4 | 32.44 | 42.26 | top 4.5% | 719 / 19,072 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 18.79 | 21.45 | top 17.2% | 2,221 / 15,683 |
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, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 24 Aug 2025Three personal bests in one day at UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025.
- 20 Apr 2025First sub-10 3×3: 8.39 at UCLA Spring 2025.
- 20 Apr 2025Three personal bests in one day at UCLA Spring 2025.
- 17 Aug 2019First competition: Nisei Week 2019. A 13.72 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- City of STEM LA 2026 · 26 Apr 2026
- UCLA Spring 2026 · 15 Feb 2026
- UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025 · 24 Aug 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- West Coast Cubing Tour: Los Angeles 2025 · 22 Jun 2025 — 1 personal best set
- UCLA Spring 2025 · 20 Apr 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- West LA Winter 2020 · 25 Jan 2020 — 2 personal bests set
- Nisei Week 2019 · 17 Aug 2019
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.
- Emil Lazaryev — met in 18 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
- Abhimanyu Singhal (अभिमन्यु सिंघल) — met in 17 rounds, finished ahead 17 times
- Joseph Wu — met in 17 rounds, finished ahead 17 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.16 away.
- A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 2.44 away.
Targets move as he improves.