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José Eduardo Palacios Castro

3×3 · top 0.96% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2019 · 2019CAST34

José Eduardo Palacios Castro has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.63, set at Desafío Cubo CRAI UCA 2024, puts him in the top 0.96% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2nd in El Salvador. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since August 2019, he has put 905 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.10 in August 2019 to 6.63, a 59% improvement. He has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.96% of 284,439 all-time
6.63
signature single · Desafío Cubo CRAI UCA 2024
905
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingEl Salvador
3×36.637.99
top 0.96%2 / 351
Skewb1.945.01
top 1.2%1 / 73
Pyraminx2.715.25
top 2.7%4 / 161
2×21.643.62
top 2.8%2 / 248
Square-18.8013.28
top 4.2%1 / 20
4×443.2349.49
top 16.1%10 / 100
Clock8.599.53
top 17.9%2 / 23
Megaminx1:15.701:26.14
top 19.1%9 / 35
3×3 one-handed20.0423.26
top 20.6%14 / 98
3×3 Fewest Moves34 moves—
early days — 3 solves2 / 16
5×51:54.92—
top 45.9%21 / 58

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

Sucursal Del Cielo 2019: 16.10Nacionales Guatemala 2019: 12.13Nacionales El Salvador 2019: 13.82Cubing Cafetalon Recargado 2020: 10.67Santa Tecla NxN 2021: 8.35Happy Cubing Acton 2021: 8.14Happy Cubing Acton Fall 2021: 8.51Santa Ana Open 2022: 8.74El Palmar Cubing Fest 2022: 7.46Auditorium de la Paz Cubea 2022: 9.02El CUBO Tour Zacamil 2022: 8.84Nacionales Guatemala 2022: 7.57Desafío de Memoria en el MUPI 2023: 7.56Acton Cubing 2023: 7.61El CUBO Tour Santa Ana 2023: 7.55Liceo Salvadoreño Open 2023: 9.15Nacionales El Salvador 2023: 8.68Cubing Acton El Salvador 2024: 7.52Desafío Cubo CRAI UCA 2024: 6.63Nacionales El Salvador 2024: 8.40Nacionales El Salvador 2025: 8.15Cubeando en El Cubo Z 2026: 11.92Cubing Acton El Salvador 2026: 8.616.6316.104 Aug 20199 Aug 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.63 away.
  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.94 away.

Targets move as he improves.