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Jose Javier Melendez Maldonado

3×3 · top 0.62% of 288,433 all-time · competing since February 2018 · 2018MALD02

Jose Javier Melendez Maldonado has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.19, set at Nacionales Guatemala 2025, puts him in the top 0.62% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in Guatemala. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since February 2018, he has put 1,432 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 80% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.39 in February 2018 to 6.19, a 76% improvement. Jose has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.62% of 288,433 all-time
6.19
signature single · Nacionales Guatemala 2025
1,432
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 80% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGuatemala
3×36.197.91
top 0.62%4 / 1,255
4×427.4031.79
top 1.6%5 / 310
3×3 one-handed11.2714.51
top 2.1%3 / 313
5×553.451:01.06
top 2.8%3 / 153
2×21.722.73
top 3.2%8 / 741
Pyraminx2.945.02
top 3.4%14 / 481
Megaminx50.1757.67
top 5.2%6 / 138
6×61:53.792:00.51
top 8.7%4 / 59
Square-111.8218.52
top 9.5%6 / 91
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves—
top 12.2%3 / 53
7×73:07.443:28.93
top 12.6%5 / 53
Skewb4.306.47
top 13.1%22 / 206
3×3 blindfolded1:19.04—
top 19.3%8 / 48
Clock13.1217.95
top 40.1%23 / 69

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

Big Bang Open 2018: 25.39IGA 2018: 14.01Luna de Xelajú 2018: 11.94Los Próceres 2019: 10.46Big Bang Open 2019: 9.38Instituto Guatemalteco Americano 2019: 7.65Nacionales Guatemala 2019: 9.67Nacionales El Salvador 2019: 8.35Ixchel 2022: 7.90Arkadia 2022: 7.76Eskala 2022: 7.95Nacionales Guatemala 2022: 6.25Villasol 2023: 6.95Décimo Aniversario Guatemala 2023: 7.24Pradera Express Villa Nueva 2024: 7.80VID Cubing Hatillo 2024: 8.14Nacionales El Salvador 2024: 6.90Nacionales Guatemala 2024: 6.34Caré Open 2025: 7.20Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.40La Cacería GT 2025: 7.31Nacionales Guatemala 2025: 6.19Nacionales El Salvador 2025: 6.73San Cristóbal 2026: 6.82Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 7.44Moore Cubes in Loudoun 2026: 6.376.1925.3910 Feb 201819 Sep 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 — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.19 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 614 people have one; it is 2.40 away.

Targets move as he improves.