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Manuel López Sheriff

3×3 blindfolded · top 13.6% of 12,178 all-time · competing since May 2007 · 2007LOPE01

Manuel López Sheriff has been competing for 19 years. His best event is the 3×3 blindfolded: a personal-best single of 1:01.59, set at Spanish Championship 2025, puts him in the top 13.6% of the 12,178 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 30th in Spain. Across 31 competitions since May 2007, he has put 751 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 49.45 in May 2007 to 12.00, a 76% improvement. Manuel has entered 31 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 blindfolded
best event — top 13.6% of 12,178 all-time
1:01.59
signature single · Spanish Championship 2025
751
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSpain
3×3 blindfolded1:01.591:31.37
top 13.6%30 / 273
3×312.0015.05
top 13.9%561 / 5,141
2×23.004.53
top 14.2%552 / 3,845
3×3 Fewest Moves31 moves—
early days — 3 solves54 / 282
3×3 one-handed20.9624.38
top 23.1%250 / 1,315
4×459.231:04.70
top 35.7%515 / 1,762
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 5 cubes · 46:07—
top 38.6%39 / 109
5×53:15.853:40.92
top 82.9%651 / 863

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

Spanish Open 2007: 49.45Murcia Open 2007: 24.93World Rubik's Cube Championship 2007: 25.32Spanish Championship 2007: 17.11Murcia Open 2008: 16.94Madrid Open 2008: 15.38Barcelona Open 2008: 16.47Toulouse Summer Open 2008: 14.33US Nationals and Open 2008: 15.81European Championship 2008: 14.88Geneva Open 2008: 13.68Portugal Open 2008: 13.05Spanish Championship 2008: 13.91Murcia Open 2009: 12.34Barcelona Open 2009: 14.11Madrid Open 2009: 13.43World Rubik's Cube Championship 2009: 14.71Madrid Open 2010: 12.61Zaragoza Open 2010: 14.16Spanish Championship 2011: 12.00Spanish Championship 2012: 16.05UAM Open 2013: 14.90Spanish Championship 2013: 16.16Spanish Championship 2023: 13.05URJC Open 2024: 13.85Spanish Championship 2024: 13.79Spanish Championship 2025: 12.7612.0049.455 May 20076 Dec 2025

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-1:00 3×3 blindfolded single — 1,593 people have one; it is 1.59 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 2.00 away.

Targets move as he improves.