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Louis de Mendonça

3×3 one-handed · top 0.085% of 73,695 all-time · competing since August 2013 · 2013MEND03

Louis de Mendonça has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 7.15, set at Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022, puts him in the top 0.085% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3rd in the United Kingdom. Until May 2015, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 56 competitions since August 2013, he has put 2,281 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 71% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.58 in August 2013 to 6.71, a 66% improvement. Louis has entered 56 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.085% of 73,695 all-time
7.15
signature single · Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022
2,281
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 71% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×3 one-handed7.159.89
top 0.085%3 / 1,851
3×36.718.09
top 1.0%87 / 6,689
2×21.702.64
top 3.1%231 / 4,895
4×431.5136.61
top 3.8%93 / 2,071
Clock6.647.58
top 9.6%124 / 1,232
3×3 blindfolded52.501:30.19
top 10.7%53 / 311
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves—
early days — 3 solves55 / 372
Skewb4.576.94
top 15.0%349 / 2,421
5×51:18.081:24.13
top 17.6%232 / 1,151
Pyraminx5.749.87
top 18.1%703 / 3,656
4×4 blindfolded6:15.53—
top 31.4%39 / 84
Megaminx1:46.791:51.99
top 38.5%432 / 966
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 6 cubes · 41:39—
early days — 2 solves75 / 126
5×5 blindfolded18:08.00—
early days — 1 solve33 / 50
Square-137.1645.79
top 61.5%511 / 778
6×64:04.274:45.17
top 66.9%385 / 548

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

Guildford Open 2013: 19.58Rubik's Cube European Championships 2014: 11.21UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2014: 12.01Welcome Back to Guildford 2015: 11.40The Glorious North 2015: 9.73Exeter Open 2016: 10.55Macclesfield Open 2016: 10.36UK Championship 2016: 10.48London Open 2017: 8.64World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 8.25UK Championship 2017: 10.02High Wycombe Open 2018: 9.12Irish Championship 2018: 7.37Champagne Open 2018: 8.70Stratford-upon-Avon Open 2018: 8.60UK Championship 2018: 7.38Leeds Open 2019: 7.05UK Championship 2019: 7.17Guildford Open 2020: 7.32Stevenage Spring 2022: 8.50Cheltenham Summer 2022: 9.60Stevenage Summer 2022: 6.80Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 8.25August Bank Holiday Cheltenham 2022: 7.69Droitwich Spa Autumn 2022: 8.22Stevenage Autumn B 2022: 7.64Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 8.72East London Autumn 2022: 8.39UK New Year Countdown 2023: 6.71Brent Cross Winter 2023: 7.91Essex Spring 2023: 6.98Reading Spring 2023: 8.32Stevenage July 2023: 8.08Isle of Wight Summer 2023: 8.67Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 7.95Mind Sports Olympiad Cubing 2023: 7.83Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 7.42Stevenage November 2023: 7.53Stevenage February 2024: 7.90Stevenage April 2024: 6.73Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 7.60Mind Sports Olympiad London 2024: 8.46Kewbz UK Open 2024: 7.64Stevenage Beginners September B 2024: 8.02Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 7.37Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2024: 7.70Hampshire Winter 2025: 7.84Weston-super-Mare Spring 2025: 8.31Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 6.97Stevenage October 2025: 7.70Hampshire Autumn 2025: 7.80Stevenage 10th Anniversary 2025: 7.88Weston-super-Mare Spring 2026: 8.26Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 7.86Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 7.046.7119.5824 Aug 201328 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 one-handed single — 4 people have one; it is 1.15 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.71 away.

Targets move as he improves.