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Mateo Tiul

3×3 · top 0.69% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2013 · 2013TIUL01

Mateo Tiul has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.31, set at New York City Winter 2017, puts him in the top 0.69% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 453rd in the United States. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 35 competitions since April 2013, he has put 1,705 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 81% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.83 in April 2013 to 6.31, a 65% improvement. Mateo has entered 35 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.69% of 284,439 all-time
6.31
signature single · New York City Winter 2017
1,705
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 81% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.318.06
top 0.69%453 / 59,724
4×425.3432.95
top 0.79%136 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed10.5313.40
top 1.4%226 / 15,683
2×21.812.66
top 3.6%1,427 / 40,951
5×557.681:05.71
top 4.4%362 / 9,401
Skewb3.144.57
top 5.7%879 / 18,907
7×72:49.743:01.32
top 7.8%208 / 3,184
Megaminx57.201:01.23
top 8.5%585 / 7,841
6×61:56.272:04.29
top 9.6%339 / 4,196
Square-112.5421.58
top 10.9%763 / 6,743
Pyraminx5.396.61
top 15.7%4,131 / 28,708
3×3 blindfolded1:55.333:10.30
top 31.8%654 / 2,092
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves—
early days — 2 solves810 / 2,040
Clock21.11—
early days — 1 solve5,844 / 8,927
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 3 cubes · 20:13—
early days — 1 solve626 / 731
4×4 blindfolded18:18.0020:32.00
early days — 3 solves364 / 440

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

Yale Spring 2013: 17.83Newark Head to Head 2013: 15.59CCFC Winter 2014: 10.61CCFC BLD Day 2014: 10.18US Nationals 2014: 12.07GCC Fall 2014: 10.30Lexington Fall 2014: 10.46MIT Fall 2014: 10.77US Nationals 2015: 10.23Lexington Fall 2015: 7.30Princeton Winter 2016: 9.51Melrose Winter 2016: 8.57Northeastern Spring 2016: 7.92Hudson Valley Open Fall 2016: 8.59New York City Winter 2017: 6.31Red Cross Cubing Open 2017: 8.43Lexington Summer 2017: 8.27Binghamton Winter Cube Day 2018: 7.98CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 7.74CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 8.31CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 8.49CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 8.12Quabbin Summer 2019: 6.95Empire State Fall 2019: 7.88Southern Utah Summer 2023: 7.48Back to School Utah 2023: 6.88Utah Valley Open 2023: 6.88Utah Championship 2023: 7.74Utah Ice Cubing 2024: 7.49Utah Newcomers 2024: 6.42Southern Utah Summer 2024: 6.89Southern Utah Summer 2025: 6.53Utah Puzzling for Awareness V Favorites 2026: 7.486.3117.8321 Apr 201311 Apr 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.

  • Tim Reynolds — met in 136 rounds, finished ahead 90 times
  • Zach Goldman — met in 131 rounds, finished ahead 67 times
  • Sam Schultz — met in 130 rounds, finished ahead 105 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.31 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 0.34 away.

Targets move as he improves.