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José Cruz Lara Rojas

3×3 · top 0.99% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2016 · 2016ROJA03

José Cruz Lara Rojas has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.66, set at Mexican Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.99% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 37th in Mexico. Until January 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since January 2016, he has put 872 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 84% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.50 in January 2016 to 6.66, a 37% improvement. He has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.99% of 284,439 all-time
6.66
signature single · Mexican Championship 2025
872
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 84% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMexico
3×36.667.92
top 0.99%37 / 4,263
2×21.882.51
top 4.0%141 / 3,018
3×3 one-handed13.5916.97
top 5.4%90 / 1,672
4×437.0143.70
top 8.7%185 / 1,845
5×51:12.251:23.84
top 13.3%151 / 1,010
Pyraminx5.228.63
top 14.6%353 / 2,003
6×62:24.832:42.38
top 23.0%126 / 510
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves—
early days — 3 solves123 / 317
7×75:01.385:15.71
top 51.0%234 / 472
Megaminx2:13.80—
early days — 2 solves596 / 1,042
Skewb15.3821.53
top 79.5%973 / 1,157
Clock44.65—
early days — 2 solves614 / 652

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

Live Your Dream 2016: 10.50Tlaxcala Open 2016: 8.65Aguascalientes Summer 2016: 8.01Rubik Zacatecas 2017: 8.05Tlaxcala Open Clásico 2017: 8.75Return Open 2017: 8.33Tlaxcala Sunshine 2018: 8.51Mexican Championship 2018: 8.10Tula 2018: 7.69 Tlaxcallan 2019: 7.94IT Puebla 2019: 8.17NxN Tlaxcala 2019: 6.97Misión México 2019: 8.86Cubing Tlaxcala 2023: 6.75Calmecac Tlaxcala 2023: 7.00Don't NxN Tlaxcala 2023: 7.81Donas en Tlalocan Volumen 2 2024: 7.49Huitzitzilli Tlaxcala 2024: 7.75D Amicis Puebla 2024: 7.10Yollotl Tlaxcala 2024: 7.37Clásico Tlaxcala 2025: 7.59Mexican Championship 2025: 6.666.6610.5023 Jan 201618 Dec 2025

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.66 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.88 away.

Targets move as he improves.