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Michael Paul Romero

Megaminx · top 1.2% of 34,786 all-time · competing since December 2024 · 2024ROME27

Michael Paul Romero has been competing for a year. His best event is the Megaminx: a personal-best single of 38.36, set at Quezon City Cubing Sides 2025, puts him in the top 1.2% of the 34,786 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7th in the Philippines. Until November 2014, no official Megaminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since December 2024, he has put 584 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 94% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His Megaminx best has come down from 1:15.56 in December 2024 to 38.36, a 49% improvement. Michael has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Megaminx
best event — top 1.2% of 34,786 all-time
38.36
signature single · Quezon City Cubing Sides 2025
584
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 94% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPhilippines
Megaminx38.3649.13
top 1.2%7 / 690
3×38.6411.07
top 4.0%391 / 6,270
2×22.293.63
top 7.0%257 / 4,257
6×61:53.202:14.25
top 8.4%32 / 298
Pyraminx4.358.44
top 9.4%241 / 2,621
4×438.4746.76
top 10.3%252 / 2,135
3×3 one-handed16.8522.21
top 12.2%301 / 2,440
5×51:11.561:16.44
top 12.7%130 / 928
7×73:22.323:46.03
top 17.1%58 / 275
Skewb5.256.82
top 20.1%311 / 1,320
Square-121.1129.42
top 30.4%131 / 374
Clock11.3214.08
top 31.7%201 / 534

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

Cainta Puzzle Fest 2024: 1:15.56CaMaNaVa Year-End Blast 2024: 1:04.53Sikat ng Taon Speedcubing Blitz 2025: 58.96Caviteminx 2025: 54.12Imus Speedcubing Open II 2025: 52.48Ateneo Pi Day Plus 1 2025: 55.77Quezon City Cubing Sides 2025: 38.36Caloocan Speedcubing Open 2025: 51.39Pinoy Side Events Open 2025: 46.79South Park Center Muntinlupa Speedcubing Open 2025: 51.60Luzon Multi-Mega Madness 2025: 45.47Las Piñas Speedcubing Warm-Up 2025: 46.05Philippine Championship 2025: 47.06Algorithms in Antipolo III 2025: 43.70GAN Manila Speedcubing Open 2026: 43.0438.361:15.5621 Dec 202431 May 2026

Best single per competition, Megaminx. 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-30 Megaminx single — 75 people have one; it is 8.36 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.64 away.

Targets move as he improves.