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Kyle McDonald Trejos

4×4 · top 1.4% of 83,917 all-time · competing since September 2017 · 2017TREJ03

Kyle McDonald Trejos has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 26.98, set at Cubing Tibas 2026, puts him in the top 1.4% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2nd in Costa Rica. Until April 2012, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 24 competitions since September 2017, he has put 1,273 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.55 in September 2017 to 8.16, a 29% improvement. Kyle has entered 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 1.4% of 83,917 all-time
26.98
signature single · Cubing Tibas 2026
1,273
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCosta Rica
4×426.9830.20
top 1.4%2 / 130
5×549.9153.86
top 1.7%2 / 75
6×61:33.021:40.00
top 2.4%1 / 30
Pyraminx2.684.83
top 2.7%7 / 225
2×21.682.80
top 3.0%7 / 307
3×38.169.19
top 3.1%14 / 367
3×3 one-handed12.6817.17
top 3.9%7 / 135
Skewb2.815.62
top 4.1%9 / 133
7×72:32.552:48.48
top 4.2%2 / 22
Megaminx52.471:04.06
top 6.2%10 / 82
Square-111.3217.56
top 8.5%7 / 52
Clock25.44—
early days — 1 solve17 / 19

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

Bekubes Costa Rica 2017: 11.55Bekubes Open 2018: 11.73Nacionales Guatemala 2018: 9.45Costa Rica Nationals 2018: 11.82Bekubes Gold 2019: 9.68Cubing Heredia 2019: 11.02San Pedro Open 2019: 10.22Bekubes Plaza Real Alajuela 2019: 8.97Cubing Chiriquí 2019: 10.36Score Cube Day 2020: 9.92Costa Rica Regresa V2 2022: 10.79Cubing Universal San Jose 2022: 9.10Retro Mall San Pedro 2023: 9.58Costa Rican Championship 2023: 11.03VID Cubing Hatillo 2024: 8.43Golden Valley Open Heredia 2024: 9.91Conta Cubes Cartago 2025: 8.70Gravilias Open 2025: 10.05UH Cube Day Tibas 2025: 9.91UH Cubing San José 2025: 8.16Costa Rica Nationals 2025: 9.11Cubing Plaza Real Alajuela 2026: 9.58Cubing Tibas 2026: 9.108.1611.829 Sep 201723 May 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-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 1.98 away.
  • A sub-40 5×5 single — 68 people have one; it is 9.91 away.

Targets move as he improves.