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Javier Hernandez Requena

3×3 blindfolded · top 9.4% of 12,178 all-time · competing since May 2012 · 2012REQU01

Javier Hernandez Requena has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3 blindfolded: a personal-best single of 48.65, set at Spanish Championship 2019, puts him in the top 9.4% of the 12,178 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 22nd in Spain. Until December 2008, no official 3×3 blindfolded solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since May 2012, he has put 382 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 38.76 in May 2012 to 15.32, a 60% improvement. Javier has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 blindfolded
best event — top 9.4% of 12,178 all-time
48.65
signature single · Spanish Championship 2019
382
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSpain
3×3 blindfolded48.651:04.96
top 9.4%22 / 273
3×3 Multi-Blind10 of 10 cubes · 55:08
top 17.4%12 / 109
3×315.3218.46
top 25.5%1,061 / 5,141
4×4 blindfolded7:18.72
top 39.2%17 / 57
2×25.946.89
top 50.3%1,753 / 3,845
5×5 blindfolded30:31.00
early days — 3 solves25 / 29

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

Rubikaz 10th Anniversary Open 2012: 38.76Murcia Open 2013: 23.08Dual Games 2013: 21.72Spanish Championship 2013: 19.83Murcia Open 2014: 18.13Spanish Championship 2014: 18.98UPV Open 2014: 19.84Murcia 2015: 17.97Getafe Open 2015: 19.84KubeKings Weekend 2015: 16.64Archena Open 2015: 16.33Spanish Championship 2015: 19.25Molina Open 2016: 16.63Murcia 2016: 18.04Albacete Open 2016: 16.38Archena Open 2016: 18.48Spanish Championship 2016: 16.11Imaginalia Open 2017: 16.86Cartagena UPCT Open 2017: 17.85Murcia 10th Anniversary 2017: 18.42World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 21.25Spanish Championship 2017: 16.60Murcia 2018: 18.76WCA European Championship 2018: 18.74Albacete Open 2018: 17.54Archena Open 2019: 17.54Spanish Championship 2019: 15.3215.3238.765 May 201211 Oct 2019

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-40 3×3 blindfolded single — 826 people have one; it is 8.65 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 0.32 away.

Targets move as he improves.