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Mario Valverde Mariscal

3×3 · top 4.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2013 · 2013MARI01

Mario Valverde Mariscal has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.92, set at Mololoa Open 2025, puts him in the top 4.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 243rd in Mexico. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 28 competitions since January 2013, he has put 1,217 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.58 in January 2013 to 8.92, a 34% improvement. Mario has entered 28 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.7% of 284,439 all-time
8.92
signature single · Mololoa Open 2025
1,217
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMexico
3×38.9211.23
top 4.7%243 / 4,263
Megaminx50.071:03.51
top 5.1%52 / 1,042
2×22.394.16
top 7.9%290 / 3,018
Pyraminx4.166.51
top 8.5%217 / 2,003
3×3 one-handed15.4220.04
top 9.0%151 / 1,672
4×438.9247.77
top 10.9%239 / 1,845
5×51:14.341:24.32
top 14.8%172 / 1,010
Clock8.6511.19
top 18.2%140 / 652
Skewb5.089.09
top 18.8%298 / 1,157
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves40.67
top 30.0%65 / 317
7×74:39.905:05.04
top 44.5%211 / 472
6×63:08.38—
top 44.8%238 / 510
3×3 blindfolded2:49.523:51.70
top 49.4%99 / 251
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 3 cubes · 21:12—
early days — 1 solve37 / 87

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

Guadalajara Open 2013: 13.58CUCEI Championship 2014: 11.33FNSM Open 2015: 11.13CUCEI Open 2015: 11.24Aguascalientes Summer 2015: 10.34Argentum Open 2016: 11.21Cool Toons Guadalajara 2017: 11.23Tonallan Open 2018: 11.08Minerva Guadalajara 2023: 14.65CUCEI Open 2024: 11.09Coralito Bahía De Banderas 2024: 10.70Ameca Nayarit 2025: 11.92Baja Spring 2025: 11.20Mololoa Open 2025: 8.92Cubo Azul Guadalajara 2025: 10.44Aguascalientes Summer 2025: 10.77Minerva Zapopan 2025: 11.62Enguasados en Nayarit 2025: 9.52CUAAD Huentitán Open 2025: 11.61Mexican Championship 2025: 9.42Minerva Zapopan 2026: 9.02UPEN Open 2026: 9.84Tlajopen 2026: 9.248.9214.6519 Jan 201327 Jun 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.92 away.
  • A sub-50 Megaminx single — 1,776 people have one; it is 0.07 away.

Targets move as he improves.