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Joshua Almanza

3×3 · top 0.71% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2019 · 2019ALMA03

Joshua Almanza has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.34, set at NSW State Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.71% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 75th in Australia. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since November 2019, he has put 740 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.06 in November 2019 to 6.34, a 74% improvement. Joshua has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.71% of 284,439 all-time
6.34
signature single · NSW State Championship 2025
740
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×36.348.06
top 0.71%75 / 11,709
Skewb2.293.30
top 2.2%75 / 3,534
2×21.853.17
top 3.9%298 / 8,567
4×432.8436.73
top 4.8%132 / 3,051
Pyraminx3.416.79
top 5.1%230 / 5,993
Clock5.327.61
top 5.3%73 / 1,095
5×51:10.341:30.22
top 11.8%160 / 1,356
Megaminx1:04.641:18.32
top 12.4%153 / 1,277
Square-125.5334.62
top 40.2%387 / 899

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

Odd Day in Sydney 2019: 24.06Sydney Open 2019: 16.96Enjoyable Sydney Gathering 2020: 13.13NSW Open 2022: 8.26Sydney Winter Saturday 2022: 8.92Marrickville Mini Open AM 2022: 7.00Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2022: 8.94North Sydney Cube Day 2023: 8.81Marrickville Mini May Open 2023: 7.09Cubing at Tramsheds Sunday 2023: 8.03Simple Sydney Sunday 2023: 7.29Sydney Summer 2023: 7.13Cubing at The Cube 2024: 7.51Tramsheds I: Newcomer Sunday 2024: 7.54Kogarah Cube Day Saturday 2024: 7.49Tramsheds II: May Sunday 2024: 7.73Kiama Winter 2024: 7.60Cubing in Wollondilly 2024: 7.62Coffs Big Banana Bonanza 2024: 8.53Tramsheds IV: Summer Saturday 2025: 7.67NSW State Championship 2025: 6.34NxNjoyable Sydney Gathering 2026: 6.74West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2026: 6.79Tramsheds X: Winter Sunday 2026: 8.546.3424.0610 Nov 201930 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 0.34 away.
  • A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.29 away.

Targets move as he improves.