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Arián Alvarado Vargas

3×3 · top 9.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2017 · 2017VARG13

Arián Alvarado Vargas has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.69, set at Bekubes Open 2018, puts him in the top 9.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 44th in Costa Rica. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since September 2017, he has put 100 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.07 in September 2017 to 10.69, a 47% improvement. He has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.5% of 284,439 all-time
10.69
signature single · Bekubes Open 2018
100
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCosta Rica
3×310.6913.10
top 9.5%44 / 367
Pyraminx6.0511.98
top 20.4%49 / 225
4×449.851:03.02
top 24.5%49 / 130
2×25.596.75
top 46.4%166 / 307
5×52:20.702:34.09
top 61.4%56 / 75
3×3 one-handed37.7843.74
top 62.0%101 / 135
Megaminx3:28.85
early days — 1 solve77 / 82

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

Bekubes Costa Rica 2017: 20.07Bekubes Open 2018: 10.69Costa Rica Nationals 2018: 11.8410.6920.079 Sep 201714 Jul 2018

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.69 away.
  • A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 0.05 away.

Targets move as he improves.