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Matheus Peres Albuquerque

3×3 · top 5.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2017 · 2017ALBU02

Matheus Peres Albuquerque has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.21, set at Cubetec UEA Manaus 2025, puts him in the top 5.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 248th in Brazil. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since October 2017, he has put 353 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 96% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.08 in October 2017 to 9.21, a 49% improvement. Matheus has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.4% of 284,439 all-time
9.21
signature single · Cubetec UEA Manaus 2025
353
official solves on the record
17%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 96% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingBrazil
3×39.2111.47
top 5.4%248 / 9,644
3×3 one-handed14.5524.59
top 7.2%91 / 1,992
2×22.673.63
top 10.6%353 / 5,137
3×3 blindfolded2:34.74
top 44.8%122 / 333
4×42:13.65
early days — 2 solves1,492 / 1,855

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

Manaus Plaza Open II 2017: 18.08Tambaqui Plaza Open 2018: 12.93Manaus Cubo Plaza Open 2018: 13.03Manaus Cubo Plaza Open 2019: 13.23IFAM Open 2019: 10.85Millennium Open 2020: 11.25Manaus Plaza Open 2020: 12.10Manaus Plaza Open 2022: 11.09Manaus Plaza Open 2025: 11.86Manaus Plaza Open II 2025: 10.21Florença ao Cubo 2025: 10.33Cubetec UEA Manaus 2025: 9.21Campeonato Amazonense 2025: 11.01Cube Against Cancer Manaus 2026: 11.60Circuito dos Shoppings - Etapa Ponta Negra 2026: 9.689.2118.0821 Oct 201730 May 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 1.21 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 2.55 away.

Targets move as he improves.