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Josh Ezra Parpa

3×3 · top 3.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2017 · 2017PARP01

Josh Ezra Parpa has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.38, set at Bacolod Speedcubing Rush 2023, puts him in the top 3.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 338th in the Philippines. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since June 2017, he has put 388 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 72% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.74 in June 2017 to 8.38, a 29% improvement. Josh has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.5% of 284,439 all-time
8.38
signature single · Bacolod Speedcubing Rush 2023
388
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPhilippines
3×38.389.44
top 3.5%338 / 6,270
2×22.443.66
top 8.3%312 / 4,257
3×3 one-handed15.1621.03
top 8.4%194 / 2,440
Pyraminx5.388.14
top 15.6%424 / 2,621
Skewb5.4011.02
top 21.2%331 / 1,320
4×41:01.641:16.39
top 38.2%1,012 / 2,135
Square-134.7640.50
top 58.0%222 / 374

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

2nd Negros Speedcubing Open 2017: 11.74Bacolod Speedcubing Open 2017: 11.12Goldenfields Open 2017: 10.00Iloilo Speedcubing Open 2017: 9.62Bacolod Cubing Quest 2018: 9.41Negros Speedcubing Open III 2018: 9.65Negros Speedcubing Re-Open 2022: 8.90Even Day in Bacolod 2022: 9.03Cebu New Year Open 2023: 8.41Bacolod Speedcubing Rush 2023: 8.38Kyube Kita Kabankalan 2023: 8.97West Visayas Championship 2023: 8.998.3811.7410 Jun 201727 May 2023

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.38 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.44 away.

Targets move as he improves.