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Joaquín Mena Carmi

3×3 · top 3.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2017 · 2017CARM01

Joaquín Mena Carmi has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.31, set at Patio Cubik Masters Sábado 2023, puts him in the top 3.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 64th in Chile. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since April 2017, he has put 301 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 61% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.09 in April 2017 to 8.31, a 48% improvement. He has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.4% of 284,439 all-time
8.31
signature single · Patio Cubik Masters Sábado 2023
301
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChile
3×38.319.46
top 3.4%64 / 2,080
4×437.5241.94
top 9.3%64 / 562
Skewb4.5310.91
top 14.7%66 / 314
2×23.223.94
top 16.8%212 / 1,303
3×3 one-handed18.6620.00
top 16.9%81 / 458
5×51:25.271:27.27
top 23.5%74 / 223
Pyraminx7.237.96
top 29.8%218 / 871

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

Rubik Soletta Santiago 2017: 16.09Latin America Cubing Tour - Santiago 2017: 12.38Open La Florida 2017: 11.28DEC Open 2017: 11.55Instituto Nacional Open 2017: 9.16Santiago Wintercubing Open 2022: 10.04Patio Cubik Masters Sábado 2023: 8.31Lions in Baquedano Cubing 2024: 9.26UC al Cubo - Santiago 2024: 8.878.3116.091 Apr 20175 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 0.31 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 7.52 away.

Targets move as he improves.