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Tej Aliota

3×3 · top 0.77% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022ALIO01

Tej Aliota has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.40, set at Don't Pop Austin 2024, puts him in the top 0.77% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 499th in the United States. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 14 competitions since July 2022, he has put 842 official solves on the record across twelve 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 9.26 in July 2022 to 6.40, a 31% improvement. Tej has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.77% of 284,439 all-time
6.40
signature single · Don't Pop Austin 2024
842
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 standingUnited States
3×36.407.95
top 0.77%499 / 59,724
Pyraminx2.284.99
top 1.7%434 / 28,708
2×21.392.65
top 1.7%673 / 40,951
4×430.8132.42
top 3.3%534 / 19,072
5×556.241:03.03
top 3.8%322 / 9,401
Clock6.289.26
top 8.2%643 / 8,927
Square-111.1617.13
top 8.3%597 / 6,743
3×3 one-handed15.2518.97
top 8.6%1,158 / 15,683
6×62:00.722:12.07
top 11.3%402 / 4,196
Megaminx1:05.811:12.36
top 13.2%902 / 7,841
Skewb5.357.55
top 20.9%3,333 / 18,907
7×75:00.57—
early days — 3 solves1,480 / 3,184

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

CubingUSA Southern Championship 2022: 9.26Cube With Intention in Denton 2022: 8.37Cubing For Water Winter 2023: 8.32Cube Against Cancer Texas 2023: 7.24Houston Spring Side Events 2023: 6.78CubingUSA Southern Championship 2023: 7.46Space City Summer 2023: 7.33Brazos Cubing Fall 2023: 7.82Fleur-de-Lis Fall LA 2023: 6.77Space City Winter 2024: 7.35Don't Pop Austin 2024: 6.40CubingUSA Southern Championship 2024: 6.69Brazos Cubing Fall 2024: 6.63Houston Back to School 2025: 7.256.409.2629 Jul 20229 Aug 2025

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.

  • Ryan Pilat — met in 124 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Matt Lee — met in 114 rounds, finished ahead 74 times
  • Siddharth Reddy — met in 95 rounds, finished ahead 31 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.40 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.28 away.

Targets move as he improves.