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Santiago Ballén Fandiño

3×3 · top 3.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2024 · 2024FAND03

Santiago Ballén Fandiño has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.11, set at Avenida Chile XXVI 2025, puts him in the top 3.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 117th in Colombia. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since July 2024, he has put 813 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.95 in July 2024 to 8.11, a 37% improvement. Santiago has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.0% of 284,439 all-time
8.11
signature single · Avenida Chile XXVI 2025
813
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingColombia
3×38.119.55
top 3.0%117 / 5,812
Pyraminx3.257.69
top 4.5%99 / 2,395
2×21.993.32
top 4.7%160 / 3,615
4×434.2545.39
top 6.1%71 / 1,270
3×3 one-handed18.3219.47
top 15.9%145 / 1,175
5×51:20.881:37.16
top 19.8%110 / 506
Skewb5.339.41
top 20.7%250 / 1,065
Clock11.2215.73
top 31.2%137 / 435
Megaminx1:36.512:01.13
top 32.4%230 / 533
6×62:52.213:17.17
top 37.1%88 / 232
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves—
early days — 1 solve62 / 155
Square-138.1956.88
top 63.1%203 / 317
7×76:03.946:21.40
early days — 3 solves146 / 182

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

Edén Bogotá 2024: 12.95Centro Suba Bogotá III 2024: 10.48Colombian Nationals Avenida Chile 2024: 10.10Avenida Chile XVIII 2024: 10.77Edén Bogotá 2025: 12.17Edén Bogotá II 2025: 10.34Madrid Cundinamarca VII 2025: 10.74Salitre al Cubo Bogotá 2025: 10.52Metrópolis Bogotá 2025: 11.17Centro Suba Bogotá V 2025: 9.50Titan Plaza Bogotá 2025: 9.20Avenida Chile XXVI 2025: 8.1175 por Ciento Bogotá 2025: 9.82MYHM Colombian Nationals Eje Cafetero 2025: 10.48Cubos y Libros Pereira 2025: 9.87Plaza Madero Chía VII 2025: 9.28Bima al Cubo III Bogotá 2026: 9.58Zipaquirá Cundinamarca II 2026: 9.71Puro 3x3 Bulevar Niza Bogotá 2026: 8.14Zipaquirá Cundinamarca III 2026: 9.71WCA South American Championship 2026: 8.238.1112.9513 Jul 202412 Jun 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 — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.11 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.25 away.

Targets move as he improves.