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Merik Kaleb Lazo

3×3 · top 3.9% of 288,433 all-time · competing since October 2024 · 2024LAZO02

Merik Kaleb Lazo has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.54, set at Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026, puts him in the top 3.9% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,189th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since October 2024, he has put 560 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 67% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.91 in October 2024 to 8.54, a 55% improvement. Merik has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.9% of 288,433 all-time
8.54
signature single · Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026
560
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.549.70
top 3.9%2,189 / 60,666
2×22.103.54
top 5.5%2,215 / 41,674
3×3 one-handed14.3717.17
top 6.9%945 / 15,900
Pyraminx3.986.34
top 7.6%1,973 / 29,168
4×438.3246.19
top 10.2%1,539 / 19,354
Square-112.6929.85
top 11.3%800 / 6,846
Clock7.348.80
top 12.3%963 / 9,172
Skewb4.366.61
top 13.5%2,114 / 19,164
Megaminx1:13.211:24.80
top 17.6%1,213 / 8,026
5×51:24.151:29.14
top 22.6%1,778 / 9,537
6×63:52.74—
early days — 2 solves2,481 / 4,262
7×79:04.21—
early days — 1 solve3,094 / 3,236

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

CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024: 18.91Colonial Cube Clash VA 2024: 15.77Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 14.31New-Cumberland County 2025: 10.30CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2025: 13.22Virginia Championship 2025: 12.32ODU Big Blue Open 2025: 10.08Virginia Beach Fall 2025: 10.77Williamsburg Open Spring 2026: 10.26Virginia Beach Spring 2026: 10.80RVA Spring 2026: 8.79Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 8.82Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 8.54Williamsburg Open Fall 2026: 8.87ODU Big Blue Fall 2026: 9.15Virginia Championship 2026: 8.848.5418.9112 Oct 202417 Oct 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 — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.54 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.10 away.

Targets move as he improves.