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Joaquin Hernandez

3×3 · top 4.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2022 · 2022HERN06

Joaquin Hernandez has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.62, set at Colorado Championship 2024, puts him in the top 4.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,251st in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 33 competitions since April 2022, he has put 1,082 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.90 in April 2022 to 8.62, a 49% improvement. Joaquin has entered 33 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.0% of 284,439 all-time
8.62
signature single · Colorado Championship 2024
1,082
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.629.94
top 4.0%2,251 / 59,724
Pyraminx3.908.06
top 7.2%1,833 / 28,708
2×22.893.96
top 13.0%5,116 / 40,951
4×442.6248.14
top 15.3%2,300 / 19,072
Square-114.8017.62
top 16.0%1,080 / 6,743
3×3 one-handed19.3025.51
top 18.6%2,396 / 15,683
5×51:26.561:37.17
top 24.5%1,912 / 9,401
Skewb6.1610.30
top 27.0%4,395 / 18,907
6×62:54.273:16.23
top 38.2%1,378 / 4,196
7×74:37.405:07.17
top 43.6%1,260 / 3,184
Megaminx1:56.462:15.86
top 43.9%3,199 / 7,841
Clock35.06—
early days — 3 solves8,022 / 8,927

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

Cubing in Craig 2022: 16.90Colorado Cubing Weekend 2022: 13.76Slopeside Solving 2022: 12.50Summit Big Cube Showdown 2022: 15.56Cubing in The Springs 2022: 10.96Loveland Fall 2022: 12.46LoCo Cubing PM 2022: 11.91Sleepless in Seattle 2023: 11.24Happy Crew Cubing CO 2023: 12.55Mile High Megacomp 2023: 11.73Don't be Fooled Colorado 2023: 10.61Colorado Waffle Jostle 2023: 10.05Cubing In Creek 2023: 11.60FoCo Cubing 2023: 10.91Don't Fall Off Pikes Peak 2023: 10.27Centennial State Cube-Off 2023: 10.80Colorado Pastacomp 2023: 10.95The Art of the Cube Colorado 2023: 10.95Rocky Mountain Warm-Up 2023: 11.95CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2023: 11.20Pillar of Fire Colorado 2023: 10.57Colorado Cold Hands Showdown 2023: 10.04USAFA Flyby Cubing 2023: 8.90DeNxNver 2024: 10.45Cherry on Top Colorado AM 2024: 11.11Colorado Mountain Tour - Frisco 2024: 10.67Colorado Mountain Tour - Avon 2024: 9.05Colorado Mountain Tour - Glenwood Springs 2024: 10.64Colorado Mountain Tour - Grand Junction 2024: 10.28Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 9.82Cubing with an Altitude Colorado 2024: 9.76Colorado Championship 2024: 8.628.6216.9016 Apr 202212 Oct 2024

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 0.62 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.90 away.

Targets move as he improves.