How do I sync my iPhone 5S contacts to iCloud (I think I have a unique situation)

I've been scouring the internet all day and tried all sorts of things to get my phone to sync with iCloud.
I added a new contact today and just for fun made sure it was syncing with iCloud online. It wasn't. I did everything I could think of to get it to sync. I turned off Contacts and turned them back on, I deleted all the contacts on ICloud and then refreshed them with my iPhone contacts in the hopes that it would add them. I also tried various methods of trying to work with iCloud and Gmail and switching them on and off. That is, I went into the Mail, Contacts, Calendars on the Iphone and switched the default from Gmail to ICloud and back again.
To make a long story short: When I deleted the contacts from the iCloud website, it replaced them, but with an older version of my contacts! It didn't add my new contacts, nor my duplicates which by this time were triplicate because of the merging that I have done.
Any idea how this happened? What can I do to get it syncing again? I don't care about duplicates right now, I just want the right contacts to sync.
I have an iCloud account and a Gmail account, but I don't sync my gmail contacts. I use my gmail address as my iCloud login, if that makes a difference.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

"Forcing a backup in iCloud" -  Went to settings/icloud/storage and backup/ back up now
I just did what you suggested and it worked. The Test Contact showed up. So, I deleted the contact I added today and readded it and it showed up almost immediately into iCloud.com.
Perhaps there was something wonky with the previous contact. Any ideas? It seems to be working well now. Thank you for your help.

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