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Josué Vidal Melchor Ruiz

3×3 · top 1.4% of 288,433 all-time · competing since August 2023 · 2023RUIZ22

Josué Vidal Melchor Ruiz has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.07, set at Iguanas Nuevo Vallarta 2026, puts him in the top 1.4% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 67th in Mexico. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since August 2023, he has put 902 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 53% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 8.48 in August 2023 to 7.07, a 17% improvement. He has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.4% of 288,433 all-time
7.07
signature single · Iguanas Nuevo Vallarta 2026
902
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMexico
3×37.078.36
top 1.4%67 / 4,305
4×427.9631.82
top 1.8%29 / 1,858
5×552.191:00.03
top 2.4%17 / 1,012
3×3 one-handed11.9214.72
top 2.9%45 / 1,685
7×72:31.062:39.24
top 4.0%13 / 476
6×61:42.061:47.21
top 4.6%19 / 510
Megaminx48.7756.01
top 4.6%42 / 1,063
2×22.193.43
top 6.2%226 / 3,043
Pyraminx4.247.36
top 8.9%224 / 2,014
Skewb8.1811.64
top 42.7%586 / 1,176
Clock16.5720.59
top 54.0%380 / 660
3×3 Fewest Moves49 moves—
early days — 2 solves219 / 317
Square-12:03.75—
early days — 1 solve508 / 525

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

Nayar Open 2023: 8.48Mini Tunas 2023: 7.73Mexican Championship 2023: 8.59Mololoa Open 2024: 8.44Matatipac Open 2024: 8.61Silence in Nayarit 2024: 8.10Nayarit Open 2024: 7.68Coralito Bahía De Banderas 2024: 7.58Ameca Nayarit 2025: 8.10Mololoa Open 2025: 7.92Enguasados en Nayarit 2025: 7.37Mexican Championship 2025: 8.02Iguanas Nuevo Vallarta 2026: 7.07UPEN Open 2026: 8.04Mololoa Open 2026: 8.187.078.6119 Aug 202329 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 — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.07 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 614 people have one; it is 2.96 away.

Targets move as he improves.