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Jaime Botello García

3×3 · top 0.27% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2016 · 2016GARC52

Jaime Botello García has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.57, set at Rubik's Irish Championship 2024, puts him in the top 0.27% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 12th in Spain. Until March 2013, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 37 competitions since October 2016, he has put 1,841 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.26 in October 2016 to 5.57, a 63% improvement. Jaime has entered 37 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.27% of 284,439 all-time
5.57
signature single · Rubik's Irish Championship 2024
1,841
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSpain
3×35.577.17
top 0.27%12 / 5,141
Skewb1.554.60
top 0.51%27 / 1,685
2×21.432.60
top 1.9%82 / 3,845
4×429.0433.43
top 2.3%32 / 1,762
3×3 one-handed14.1616.64
top 6.4%64 / 1,315
Pyraminx4.977.69
top 13.0%429 / 2,865
Clock7.769.52
top 14.0%123 / 876
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves43.00
top 44.7%118 / 282

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

Villanueva Open 2016: 15.26Camarma Open 2017: 14.83Madrid Open 2017: 12.34Tembleque Open 2017: 11.13Villanueva Open 2017: 10.52Fuenlabrada Open 2017: 9.84Madrid Open 2018: 9.58El Escorial Open 2018: 8.72WCA European Championship 2018: 8.26Spanish Championship 2018: 8.20Kubekings Villanueva Open 2018: 8.42Fuenlabrada Open 2018: 7.40Getafe Vuelve 2019: 8.22Cervantes Cubea 2019: 8.09UCM Open 2019: 6.94Parla Open 2019: 8.23UPM Open 2019: 8.00Kubekings Villanueva Open 2019: 7.12Getafe Continúa 2020: 6.98X-Madrid Open 2022: 6.55Campeonato de España 2022: 6.75X-Madrid Open 2023: 6.80Parla Open 2023: 7.12Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 7.41Margarita Open 2023: 6.31Speedcube Battle Vallekas 2023: 7.34Ventanal de la Sierra Open 2023: 6.08Spanish Championship 2023: 7.14Las Tablas Open 2024: 6.30URJC Open 2024: 6.77X-Madrid Open 2024: 6.00Rubik's Irish Championship 2024: 5.57Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 6.74Ruta Valenciana I: Calp-Ifach 2024: 6.76Rubik's Italian Championship 2025: 6.395.5715.2629 Oct 20166 Dec 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.57 away.
  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.55 away.

Targets move as he improves.