12-year-old Argentinian IM Faustino Oro achieved a new personal best Blitz rating of 3004 on Lichess.org and became a platform’s No. 1 on March 19.

The gap between Faustino and the second-highest rated player, wonderland305, is 1 point, and between him and the third-highest GM legendreturns is 20 points. In total, Oro has played 12,853 rated Blitz games, winning 7,156, losing 5,188, and drawing 708, for a 55% win rate.

12-year-old Argentinian IM Faustino Oro (2526) holds all records as the youngest player to reach 2500 in Classical, Rapid, and Blitz. Faustino became the youngest IM in history at the age of 10 in 2024. At the Aeroflot Open 2026 Faustino lost the decisive game to GM Aleksey Grebnev (2621) and failed to achieve his third and last norm to become the youngest GM in history.