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Sebastian Valdes

3×3 · top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2023 · 2023VALD01

Sebastian Valdes has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.94, set at Central Washington Evens 2025, puts him in the top 1.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 768th in the United States. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 51 competitions since January 2023, he has put 1,643 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.66 in January 2023 to 6.94, a 66% improvement. Sebastian has entered 51 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time
6.94
signature single · Central Washington Evens 2025
1,643
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 74% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.949.61
top 1.3%768 / 59,724
2×21.612.56
top 2.6%1,033 / 40,951
Pyraminx2.995.41
top 3.6%953 / 28,708
4×432.4235.13
top 4.5%717 / 19,072
Clock5.057.01
top 4.5%364 / 8,927
Skewb3.305.21
top 6.6%1,014 / 18,907
Square-111.6923.75
top 9.2%660 / 6,743
5×51:12.701:19.50
top 13.6%1,039 / 9,401
Megaminx1:10.251:14.68
top 15.8%1,073 / 7,841
3×3 one-handed20.4825.41
top 21.8%2,796 / 15,683
6×62:32.852:38.64
top 27.1%951 / 4,196
7×74:21.044:41.55
top 38.1%1,067 / 3,184
3×3 Fewest Moves50 moves—
early days — 3 solves1,618 / 2,040

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

Lynnwood Winter 2023: 20.66Washington Championship 2023: 15.48Welcome to Olympia 2023: 15.78Lakewood Spring 2023: 16.65Kent Spring 2023: 14.04Mill Creek 2023: 16.51Bothell Summer 2023: 16.70Maltby Mega Special 2023: 19.03SnoCo Has Too Much 3x3 2023: 14.31Kent Summer 2023: 12.72Lucky Lynnwood 2023: 15.67Odd Olympia 2023: 13.32SnoCo Veterans Day Weekend 2023: 13.07UW or U Don't 2023: 10.62Tacoma Winter Twisters 2024: 12.56Kenmore Mini A 2024: 14.77Lakewood Newcomers 2024: 10.64Olympia Classic 2024: 11.31Kent Spring 2024: 11.03Bellingham Spring 2024: 10.46Husky Pride Seattle 2024: 12.08CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024: 10.36Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 10.25Tacoma Summer 2024: 8.30Kent Summer 2024: 7.07Oregon Championship 2024: 9.89Bellevue Cubing Afternoon - Highlands 2024: 8.73Bellingham Fall 2024: 10.15Olympia Fall 2024: 8.39Lakewood Fall 2024: 9.37Bellevue Squan Fest 2 2024: 8.58Tacoma Winter 2025: 8.74Bellevue Squan Fest January 2025: 9.15Lakewood Newcomers 2025: 9.15Worlds Warmup Woodinville 2025: 9.58Central Washington Evens 2025: 6.94Warmup for Worlds Olympia 2025: 8.98Kent Spring 2025: 9.05Warm Up Seattle 2025: 8.91Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.59Coffee Cup Tacoma 2025: 8.46 Bellevue Cubing Afternoon 2025: 8.87Lakewood Fall 2025: 7.82North Sound Spring 2026: 8.61Lakewood Spring 2026: 9.33Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 7.826.9420.667 Jan 20232 Jul 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 0.94 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.61 away.

Targets move as he improves.