People · United States
Mauricio Antonio Escobar III
Pyraminx · top 3.3% of 129,321 all-time · competing since January 2023 · 2023IIIM01
Mauricio Antonio Escobar III has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.89, set at Bellevue Squan Fest 2024, puts him in the top 3.3% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 860th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 30 competitions since January 2023, he has put 748 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 71% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.85 in January 2023 to 12.03, a 47% improvement. Mauricio has entered 30 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 2.89 | 6.17 | top 3.3% | 860 / 28,708 | |
| 2×2 | 2.01 | 4.31 | top 4.8% | 1,927 / 40,951 | |
| Skewb | 3.33 | 6.71 | top 6.7% | 1,041 / 18,907 | |
| 3×3 | 12.03 | 15.13 | top 14.0% | 7,506 / 59,724 | |
| 4×4 | 59.97 | 1:12.28 | top 36.4% | 5,877 / 19,072 | |
| Square-1 | 28.55 | 44.72 | top 46.7% | 3,045 / 6,743 | |
| Clock | 14.86 | 18.40 | top 47.4% | 3,833 / 8,927 | |
| Megaminx | 2:09.18 | 2:14.72 | top 50.8% | 3,792 / 7,841 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 38.08 | 42.40 | top 62.5% | 8,816 / 15,683 | |
| 5×5 | 2:24.30 | 2:44.45 | top 63.1% | 5,459 / 9,401 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 9 Nov 2024Three personal bests in one day at Olympia Fall 2024.
- 13 Sep 2024First sub-15 3×3: 14.39 at Oregon Championship 2024.
- 13 Sep 2024Six personal bests in one day at Oregon Championship 2024.
- 7 Sep 2024Four personal bests in one day at Kent Summer 2024.
- 28 Jun 2024Three personal bests in one day at CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024.
- 30 Sep 2023Three personal bests in one day at Lucky Lynnwood 2023.
Competitions
- Lakewood Spring 2026 · 18 Apr 2026 — 1 personal best set
- North Sound Spring 2026 · 4 Apr 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Kent Fall 2025 · 22 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Lakewood Fall 2025 · 8 Nov 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Seattle Cube Cascade UW 2025 · 4 Oct 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Coffee Cup Tacoma 2025 · 9 Aug 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025
- Warm Up Seattle 2025 · 28 Jun 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Kent Spring 2025 · 31 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Warmup for Worlds Olympia 2025 · 25 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Lakewood Newcomers 2025 · 22 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Tacoma Winter 2025 · 18 Jan 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Couve Cubing Fall 2024 · 23 Nov 2024
- Lakewood Fall 2024 · 16 Nov 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Olympia Fall 2024 · 9 Nov 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Bellevue Squan Fest 2024 · 2 Nov 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Oregon Championship 2024 · 13 Sep 2024 — 6 personal bests set
- Kent Summer 2024 · 7 Sep 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Tacoma Summer 2024 · 3 Aug 2024
- CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024 · 28 Jun 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Lakewood Newcomers 2024 · 23 Mar 2024
- Tacoma Winter Twisters 2024 · 20 Jan 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Odd Olympia 2023 · 28 Oct 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Lakewood Fall 2023 · 14 Oct 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Lucky Lynnwood 2023 · 30 Sep 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Kent Summer 2023 · 9 Sep 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Kent Spring 2023 · 27 May 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Lakewood Spring 2023 · 13 May 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Central Washington Odds 2023 · 11 Mar 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Lynnwood Winter 2023 · 7 Jan 2023
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.
- Ethan Ekstrom — met in 154 rounds, finished ahead 18 times
- Sebastian Valdes — met in 146 rounds, finished ahead 14 times
- Anishk Arora — met in 143 rounds, finished ahead twice
Next targets
- A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.89 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.01 away.
Targets move as he improves.