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Michael Zúñiga Meléndez

4×4 · top 0.52% of 83,917 all-time · competing since July 2019 · 2019MELE04

Michael Zúñiga Meléndez has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 24.13, set at VID Cubing Hatillo 2024, puts him in the top 0.52% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in Costa Rica. Until August 2014, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since July 2019, he has put 864 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 80% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 8.90 in July 2019 to 7.27, an 18% improvement. Michael has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 0.52% of 83,917 all-time
24.13
signature single · VID Cubing Hatillo 2024
864
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 80% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCosta Rica
4×424.1330.61
top 0.52%1 / 130
2×21.252.06
top 1.2%1 / 307
3×37.278.45
top 1.7%8 / 367
5×549.9055.54
top 1.7%1 / 75
Megaminx43.9252.77
top 2.7%4 / 82
6×61:34.741:42.82
top 2.8%2 / 30
Skewb2.484.93
top 2.8%3 / 133
7×72:25.852:31.48
top 3.1%1 / 22
Pyraminx3.494.89
top 5.4%14 / 225
3×3 one-handed14.0517.04
top 6.2%11 / 135
Square-125.7528.08
top 40.8%17 / 52

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

Cubing Heredia 2019: 8.90Grecia Open 2019: 11.06San Pedro Open 2019: 8.45Bekubes Plaza Real Alajuela 2019: 9.77Score Cube Day 2020: 10.03Costa Rica Regresa V2 2022: 7.37Cubing Universal San Jose 2022: 8.26Cube Factory Masters Desamparados 2023: 8.41Infinity Play Heredia 2023: 7.27Grace Cubing Cedros 2023: 8.37Costa Rican Championship 2023: 8.60Cubing Revival Terramall SD 2024: 8.28VID Cubing Hatillo 2024: 7.60Cubing Plaza Real Alajuela 2024: 8.15Golden Valley Open Heredia 2024: 8.24Gravilias Open 2025: 7.42Cubing Plaza Real Alajuela 2026: 8.217.2711.0613 Jul 201931 Jan 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-20 4×4 single — 42 people have one; it is 4.13 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.25 away.

Targets move as he improves.