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Lucas Valencia

3×3 · top 2.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024VALE11

Lucas Valencia has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.76, set at Desafío Rubik's 50 Años Guatemala 2024, puts him in the top 2.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,390th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since March 2024, he has put 518 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 81% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.34 in March 2024 to 7.76, a 37% improvement. Lucas has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.4% of 284,439 all-time
7.76
signature single · Desafío Rubik's 50 Años Guatemala 2024
518
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 81% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.7610.20
top 2.4%1,390 / 59,724
2×21.702.80
top 3.1%1,192 / 40,951
Pyraminx3.148.18
top 4.1%1,093 / 28,708
Skewb4.477.90
top 14.2%2,223 / 18,907
4×442.8952.53
top 15.6%2,366 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed24.4728.56
top 32.8%4,281 / 15,683
Clock13.9917.68
top 43.8%3,518 / 8,927
Megaminx2:13.04—
top 52.7%3,942 / 7,841
5×52:48.77—
top 74.2%6,593 / 9,401
Square-157.41—
top 81.9%5,471 / 6,743

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

Cubes on the Bayside Spring 2024: 12.34Edgemont Cubing 2024: 9.92Spring into Summit 2024: 9.36Westport Summer 2024: 9.74Desafío Rubik's 50 Años Guatemala 2024: 7.76Hudson Valley Summer 2024: 10.85An Afternoon in Nyack 2024: 9.81Cubing-on-Hudson PM 2024: 9.63Flushing Open AM 2024: 8.99Kisco Cubing 2025: 9.16Flushing Glow Open AM 2025: 10.38PBs in Palisades Winter 2025: 10.28Liberty Science Center Open B 2025: 9.54NYU Spring 2025: 8.68Long Island Summer 2025: 9.59Liberty Science Center Fall A 2025: 9.08Flushing Glow Autumn AM 2025: 11.30PBs in Palisades Open 2026: 9.07PBs in Palisades Spring 2026: 9.01NYU Spring 2026: 10.80Edgemont Cubing 2026: 7.937.7612.3416 Mar 202418 Apr 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 1.76 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.70 away.

Targets move as he improves.