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Joel A. Beck Sarmiento

2×2 · top 4.5% of 189,179 all-time · competing since April 2023 · 2023SARM03

Joel A. Beck Sarmiento has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.95, set at Virginia Championship 2026, puts him in the top 4.5% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,806th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since April 2023, he has put 491 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 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 39.06 in April 2023 to 9.70, a 75% improvement. Joel has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 4.5% of 189,179 all-time
1.95
signature single · Virginia Championship 2026
491
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 standingUnited States
2×21.953.08
top 4.5%1,806 / 41,674
3×39.7012.85
top 6.7%3,713 / 60,666
Skewb5.0113.83
top 18.3%2,929 / 19,164
Pyraminx6.689.75
top 25.3%7,028 / 29,168
3×3 one-handed23.7028.79
top 30.7%4,023 / 15,900
4×41:00.931:04.28
top 37.6%6,140 / 19,354
Megaminx3:19.25—
top 80.7%6,535 / 8,026
5×53:28.43—
top 86.1%8,116 / 9,537

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

Slow N Steady Spring 2023: 39.06Virginia Beach Fall 2023: 21.14Virginia Championship 2023: 22.70MoCo Cubing Winter 2024: 17.78Virginia Still-Open Winter 2024: 16.51Cubing in the Lion's Den 2024: 15.40Cubing at Carson 2024: 15.67UMBC Fall 2024: 14.05CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024: 12.33River Hill Fall 2024: 11.29UMBC Spring 2025: 12.14TJHSST Spring 2025: 13.13Colonial Cube Clash VA Summer 2025: 12.94Virginia Championship 2025: 12.16RVA Spring 2026: 10.17Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 9.70Moore Cubes in Loudoun 2026: 11.79ODU Big Blue Fall 2026: 12.87Virginia Championship 2026: 11.419.7039.0615 Apr 202317 Oct 2026

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-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.95 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.70 away.

Targets move as he improves.