People · Chile
Joaquín Villablanca
Square-1 · top 0.87% of 25,272 all-time · competing since June 2022 · 2022VILL09
Joaquín Villablanca has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 6.15, set at More Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025, puts him in the top 0.87% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in Chile. Until May 2017, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 24 competitions since June 2022, he has put 735 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.39 in June 2022 to 7.19, a 50% improvement. He has entered 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Chile | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Square-1 | 6.15 | 7.67 | top 0.87% | 1 / 176 | |
| 3×3 | 7.19 | 8.77 | top 1.6% | 29 / 2,080 | |
| 2×2 | 1.86 | 2.38 | top 3.9% | 36 / 1,303 | |
| 4×4 | 31.72 | 36.87 | top 4.0% | 30 / 562 | |
| Pyraminx | 3.49 | 4.73 | top 5.4% | 37 / 871 | |
| Clock | 6.46 | 8.21 | top 8.9% | 9 / 101 | |
| Megaminx | 1:02.70 | 1:10.97 | top 11.4% | 33 / 196 | |
| Skewb | 4.39 | 7.10 | top 13.7% | 58 / 314 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 18.30 | 22.97 | top 15.9% | 75 / 458 | |
| 5×5 | 1:19.94 | 1:30.29 | top 19.0% | 56 / 223 |
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
- 2 Aug 2025Three personal bests in one day at More Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025.
- 21 Jun 2025Three personal bests in one day at Colonial Cube Clash VA Summer 2025.
- 4 May 2024Five personal bests in one day at Cubing at Carson 2024.
- 10 Nov 2023First sub-10 3×3: 8.31 at Virginia Championship 2023.
- 10 Nov 2023Six personal bests in one day at Virginia Championship 2023.
- 11 Jun 2022First competition: Dunkirk Spring A 2022. A 14.39 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026 · 2 Jul 2026
- Derwood Cubing Derby Spring 2026 · 9 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Welcome to Washington D.C. 2026 · 25 Apr 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- TJHSST Winter 2026 · 15 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Fredericksburg Winter PM 2026 · 31 Jan 2026
- Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2025 · 27 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Fredericksburg Summer AM 2025 · 6 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- More Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025 · 2 Aug 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Colonial Cube Clash VA Summer 2025 · 21 Jun 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- River Hill Spring 2025 · 26 Apr 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Front Royal Spring 2025 · 13 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Bethesda Winter Wonderland 2025 · 18 Jan 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- NoVA Square-1 Showdown 2024 · 28 Dec 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Colonial Cube Clash VA 2024 · 2 Nov 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Gaithersburg Back to School 2024 · 14 Sep 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubing at Carson 2024 · 4 May 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- River Hill Spring 2024 · 27 Apr 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- NoVa Cube Winter 2024 · 3 Feb 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Virginia Championship 2023 · 10 Nov 2023 — 6 personal bests set
- Potomac Spring 2023 · 1 Apr 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Dunkirk Winter 2023 · 14 Jan 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Slow N Steady Fall 2022 · 29 Oct 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Dunkirk Spring A 2022 · 11 Jun 2022
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.
- Hassan Khanani — met in 122 rounds, finished ahead once
- Wesley Chase — met in 116 rounds, finished ahead 29 times
- Panashe Sharma — met in 108 rounds, finished ahead 20 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 Square-1 single — 201 people have one; it is 0.15 away.
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.19 away.
Targets move as he improves.