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Ricardo Olea Catalán

2×2 · top 0.35% of 186,767 all-time · competing since April 2017 · 2017CATA04

Ricardo Olea Catalán has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.88, set at Serenissima Warm Up 2023, puts him in the top 0.35% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 16th in Germany. Until November 2011, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 105 competitions since April 2017, he has put 6,534 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.08 in April 2017 to 6.92, a 73% improvement. Ricardo has entered 105 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.35% of 186,767 all-time
0.88
signature single · Serenissima Warm Up 2023
6,534
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGermany
2×20.882.52
top 0.35%16 / 2,875
3×36.929.58
top 1.2%69 / 4,109
Pyraminx2.586.03
top 2.4%51 / 1,987
3×3 Fewest Moves23 moves31.67
top 3.0%22 / 338
Skewb2.634.59
top 3.4%35 / 1,169
4×431.7339.19
top 4.0%77 / 1,934
3×3 one-handed12.7916.20
top 4.1%61 / 1,314
5×559.951:08.21
top 5.5%54 / 1,158
Megaminx53.021:04.95
top 6.5%45 / 787
6×61:48.481:54.11
top 6.6%27 / 586
7×72:53.593:08.74
top 8.8%29 / 510
Square-112.4320.87
top 10.7%48 / 533
Clock8.5010.64
top 17.5%111 / 634
3×3 blindfolded2:59.954:07.95
top 52.4%158 / 343

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

German Open 2017: 26.08Hessen Open 2017: 19.60German Big Cube Open 2017: 15.69German Nationals 2017: 15.18Monnem City Cubing 2017: 15.09PSKubing 2017: 18.94Berlin Kubus Projekt 2017: 12.80Frankfurt Cube Days 2018: 13.66Hessen Open 2018: 13.49Cologne Open 2018: 11.06WCA European Championship 2018: 12.39Monnem City Cubing 2018: 12.25CubiKonce 2019: 10.77Bremium Cubing 2019: 10.16German Open 2019: 11.06Hessen Open 2019: 11.83Rhein-Neckar Open 2019: 11.97Monnem City Cubing 2019: 10.56Franconia Fall 2019: 9.65Munich Open 2019: 11.99Baden-Württemberg Open 2019: 10.69Bremium Winter 2019: 9.97Berlin Winter Cubing 2020: 10.52Frankfurt Cube Days 2020: 9.78Hamburg International 2020: 8.08German Mini Open A 2021: 10.94German Mini Open A 2022: 10.10GamMa Spring 2022: 9.08Franconia Mini Open A 2022: 8.68Rhein-Neckar Open 2022: 9.44Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 9.69German Nationals 2022: 10.60Rheinland-Pfalz Open 2022: 9.44Darmstadt Dodecahedron Days 2022: 10.21Franconia Winter 2022: 10.49Bretzel Open 2023: 10.12Rhein-Neckar Open 2023: 11.23German Open 2023: 10.08Serenissima Warm Up 2023: 9.40San Marino Nationals 2023: 9.45Hessen Open 2023: 9.92Aasee Algorithms 2023: 9.74NxN Muro Cubea 2023: 8.96German Nationals 2023: 9.91Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 10.13Rheinland-Pfalz Open 2023: 9.80Darmstadt Dodecahedron Days 2023: 7.83NxNxNürtingen 2023: 9.18Bavarian Open 2023: 9.43Rhein-Neckar Autumn 2023: 9.32Cube Madness Schweinfurt 2023: 9.02Central Germany 2024: 8.78Beginner Cubing Delmenhorst 2024: 9.35German Newcomer Day 2024: 8.84Rheinland-Pfalz Open 2024: 9.10Darmstadt Dodecahedron Days 2024: 8.76Cubing Days Neuburg 2024: 8.85Schnelle Solves Siegen 2024: 9.10Rubik's German Nationals 2024: 9.51Frankfurt Cube Days 2024: 9.34Bremium Cubing 2024: 9.75Back to Berlin 2024: 9.46Dutch Nationals 2024: 9.03Beveren Saturday Open 2024: 9.16Budapest Special 2024: 9.92Spanish Championship 2024: 8.56Prague CubeMas 2024: 9.61Tarragona Open 2024: 8.84Azores Cubikon 2025: 8.49São Miguel Cubikon 2025: 9.63INPT Olympiads 2025: 8.41Warm Up Seattle 2025: 9.52Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.24Geselliges Gewürfel Göttingen 2025: 9.47Schnelle Solves Siegen v2 2025: 9.00Rubik's German Nationals 2025: 8.16c't Open Hannover 2025: 9.69Cottbus Cubing 2025: 9.11Spanish Championship 2025: 8.80Schwerin Open 2026: 9.63Maribor Open 2026: 6.92Braunschweig Open 2026: 8.63Bremium Cubing 2026: 8.73Ishøj NxN Countdown 2026: 8.45German Open 2026: 9.48CuBonn Open 2026: 9.07Aachen Summer Open 2026: 9.12Nats Warm-Up Delmenhorst 2026: 8.94Rubik's German Nationals 2026: 8.566.9226.0829 Apr 201728 Aug 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.92 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.58 away.

Targets move as he improves.