People · Mexico
Manuel Alejandro Torres Sotelo
3×3 · top 5.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2025 · 2025SOTE02
Manuel Alejandro Torres Sotelo has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.16, set at Mega-Mente Puebla 2025, puts him in the top 5.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 273rd in Mexico. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 1 competition since March 2025, he has put 60 official solves on the record across seven events.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Mexico | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 9.16 | 11.31 | top 5.2% | 273 / 4,263 | |
| Megaminx | 51.19 | 57.84 | top 5.6% | 57 / 1,042 | |
| 7×7 | 2:57.43 | 3:05.58 | top 9.8% | 41 / 472 | |
| Square-1 | 12.40 | 15.21 | top 10.7% | 45 / 516 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.88 | 8.14 | top 19.1% | 474 / 2,003 | |
| 2×2 | 3.98 | 4.46 | top 26.2% | 951 / 3,018 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 2:28.42 | 2:51.77 | top 42.7% | 82 / 251 |
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 story so far
- 8 Mar 2025First competition: Mega-Mente Puebla 2025. A 9.16 3×3 single to start from.
- 8 Mar 2025Four personal bests in one day at Mega-Mente Puebla 2025.
Competitions
- Mega-Mente Puebla 2025 · 8 Mar 2025 — 4 personal bests set
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.
- Jorge Luis Castillo Carrasco — met in 13 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Rodrigo Castañeda Lopez — met in 12 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
- Leonardo Sánchez Del Toro — met in 12 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.16 away.
- A sub-50 Megaminx single — 1,776 people have one; it is 1.19 away.
Targets move as he improves.