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Mario Alberto López González

3×3 one-handed · top 3.0% of 73,695 all-time · competing since August 2024 · 2024GONZ58

Mario Alberto López González has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 12.01, set at UPEN Open 2026, puts him in the top 3.0% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 49th in Mexico. Until January 2010, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since August 2024, he has put 374 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 one-handed best has come down from 35.54 in August 2024 to 12.01, a 66% improvement. Mario has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 3.0% of 73,695 all-time
12.01
signature single · UPEN Open 2026
374
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 74% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMexico
3×3 one-handed12.0115.78
top 3.0%49 / 1,672
3×38.3010.85
top 3.3%161 / 4,263
6×61:51.141:58.75
top 7.6%33 / 510
5×51:04.641:10.87
top 8.1%90 / 1,010
4×436.7541.11
top 8.4%179 / 1,845
7×72:57.212:59.15
top 9.8%40 / 472
2×23.444.40
top 19.4%735 / 3,018
Megaminx1:28.071:49.74
top 26.9%300 / 1,042
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves
early days — 1 solve65 / 317
Pyraminx8.7811.48
top 42.9%975 / 2,003
Skewb10.8320.79
top 59.9%769 / 1,157

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

Matatipac Open 2024: 35.54Silence in Nayarit 2024: 30.54Nayarit Open 2024: 22.73Ameca Nayarit 2025: 16.39Mololoa Open 2025: 13.03Minerva Zapopan 2025: 13.70Minerva Zapopan 2026: 12.13UPEN Open 2026: 12.01Mololoa Open 2026: 14.5612.0135.5417 Aug 202429 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, 3×3 one-handed. 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-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 0.01 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.30 away.

Targets move as he improves.