People · United States
Raphael Manalo
2×2 · top 2.1% of 186,767 all-time · competing since November 2018 · 2018MANA12
Raphael Manalo has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.48, set at Edgemont Cubing 2024, puts him in the top 2.1% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 825th in the United States. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since November 2018, he has put 297 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.99 in November 2018 to 9.77, a 46% improvement. Raphael has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 1.48 | 3.97 | top 2.1% | 825 / 40,951 | |
| 3×3 | 9.77 | 11.53 | top 6.8% | 3,735 / 59,724 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 23.94 | 29.52 | top 31.3% | 4,060 / 15,683 | |
| 4×4 | 57.22 | 1:06.27 | top 33.4% | 5,330 / 19,072 | |
| Pyraminx | 8.09 | 12.86 | top 36.9% | 10,477 / 28,708 | |
| 5×5 | 2:38.63 | — | top 69.9% | 6,130 / 9,401 | |
| Square-1 | 48.48 | — | early days — 1 solve | 4,928 / 6,743 | |
| Skewb | 15.30 | 23.54 | top 79.3% | 15,161 / 18,907 |
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
- 2 Mar 2024First sub-10 3×3: 9.77 at NYU Winter 2024.
- 2 Mar 2024Three personal bests in one day at NYU Winter 2024.
- 18 Mar 2023Three personal bests in one day at NJIT Spring 2023.
- 16 Mar 2019First sub-15 3×3: 14.60 at Lower Moreland Winter 2019.
- 17 Nov 2018First competition: CubingUSA New Jersey Championship 2018. A 17.99 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Liberty Science Center Fall B 2025 · 14 Sep 2025
- Summit Summer 2025 · 15 Jun 2025
- An Afternoon in Nyack 2024 · 29 Sep 2024
- Spring into Summit 2024 · 4 May 2024
- Edgemont Cubing 2024 · 13 Apr 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Cubes on the Bayside Spring 2024 · 16 Mar 2024
- NYU Winter 2024 · 2 Mar 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Cubes on the Bayside 2023 · 18 Nov 2023 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Western Championship 2023 · 30 Jun 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Bay Area Speedcubin' 48 - 6.25 Berkeley 2023 · 25 Jun 2023 — 1 personal best set
- NJIT Spring 2023 · 18 Mar 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Nationals 2019 · 1 Aug 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Brooklyn 2019 · 25 May 2019
- Empire State Spring 2019 · 20 Apr 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Lower Moreland Winter 2019 · 16 Mar 2019 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA New Jersey Championship 2018 · 17 Nov 2018
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.
- Willy Lee — met in 33 rounds, finished ahead 19 times
- Carson Widjaja — met in 33 rounds, finished ahead once
- Alex Maass — met in 31 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.48 away.
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.77 away.
Targets move as he improves.