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Liam Ornelas Diaz

3×3 · top 13.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2024 · 2024DIAZ07

Liam Ornelas Diaz has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.94, set at Pretzel Mania Summer 2024, puts him in the top 13.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7,343rd in the United States. Across 9 competitions since April 2024, he has put 185 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 80% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.40 in April 2024 to 11.94, a 55% improvement. Liam has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 13.7% of 284,439 all-time
11.94
signature single · Pretzel Mania Summer 2024
185
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 standingUnited States
3×311.9414.60
top 13.7%7,343 / 59,724
2×23.485.65
top 20.0%7,841 / 40,951
Pyraminx6.3114.27
top 22.3%6,001 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed25.7436.20
top 36.1%4,777 / 15,683
Skewb8.9910.23
top 48.3%8,600 / 18,907
4×41:41.66
top 71.7%12,920 / 19,072

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

Slow N Steady Spring 2024: 26.40Bethesda Summer Showdown 2024: 14.62Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 11.94Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2024: 14.08PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025: 13.38Slow N Steady UMD Spring 2025: 13.14Front Royal Spring 2025: 12.84UMBC Spring 2025: 13.37UMBC Winter 2026: 13.4211.9426.4013 Apr 202414 Feb 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.94 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.48 away.

Targets move as he improves.