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Marcos Plaza Nocito

Skewb · top 0.52% of 73,281 all-time · competing since February 2018 · 2018NOCI01

Marcos Plaza Nocito has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 1.56, set at Spanish Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.52% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 28th in Spain. Until October 2015, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since February 2018, he has put 1,397 official solves on the record across 17 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 15.77 in February 2018 to 7.24, a 54% improvement. Marcos has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 0.52% of 73,281 all-time
1.56
signature single · Spanish Championship 2025
1,397
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 standingSpain
Skewb1.565.15
top 0.52%28 / 1,685
3×37.248.59
top 1.6%68 / 5,141
3×3 one-handed10.8114.58
top 1.7%14 / 1,315
4×428.1335.91
top 1.8%28 / 1,762
2×22.002.83
top 4.7%194 / 3,845
5×558.521:07.40
top 4.8%28 / 863
Clock5.677.31
top 6.2%44 / 876
Pyraminx3.986.17
top 7.5%242 / 2,865
Square-111.5015.59
top 8.8%45 / 604
6×61:58.312:05.26
top 10.3%26 / 316
7×73:07.773:32.34
top 12.6%24 / 260
Megaminx1:07.601:11.75
top 14.2%100 / 874
3×3 blindfolded1:36.402:27.24
top 25.4%68 / 273
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 5 cubes · 33:42—
top 36.5%37 / 109
3×3 Fewest Moves42 moves55.00
top 55.5%144 / 282
4×4 blindfolded11:11.00—
early days — 3 solves35 / 57
5×5 blindfolded35:17.00—
early days — 2 solves27 / 29

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

Vedruna Balaguer Open 2018: 15.77Spanish Championship 2018: 12.04Vedruna Balaguer Open 2019: 11.53Spanish Championship 2019: 12.33Cervantes Cubea 2022: 9.35Bilbao Open 2022: 7.40Campeonato de España 2022: 9.06Lleida Winter Open 2023: 8.21Balaguer Medieval 2023: 8.47ZGZ Open 2023: 7.76Spanish Championship 2023: 7.48Parets Open 2024: 7.46Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 7.41Zaragoza Open 2024: 8.95Spanish Championship 2024: 9.08Tarragona Open 2024: 8.06Girona Summer Open 2025: 8.23Spanish Championship 2025: 8.50Parets Open 2026: 8.17Kārķi Open 2026: 7.247.2415.7717 Feb 201826 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-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.56 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.24 away.

Targets move as he improves.