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Ariel Menezes de Almeida Júnior

3×3 · top 23.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2017 · 2017JUNI01

Ariel Menezes de Almeida Júnior has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.59, set at Alagoinhas Open 2017, puts him in the top 23.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,338th in Brazil. Across 4 competitions since March 2017, he has put 95 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 92% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Ariel has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 23.0% of 284,439 all-time
14.59
signature single · Alagoinhas Open 2017
95
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 92% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingBrazil
3×314.5916.40
top 23.0%1,338 / 9,644
3×3 one-handed26.7130.92
top 38.6%588 / 1,992
4×41:04.731:21.45
top 41.5%581 / 1,855
2×26.177.99
top 52.6%2,056 / 5,137

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

Oxente Open 2017: 15.96Alagoinhas Open 2017: 14.59Villa Open 2017: 14.75Cubing At Pan American School of Bahia 2022: 19.2314.5919.2318 Mar 20175 Nov 2022

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.59 away.
  • A sub-25 3×3 one-handed single — 25,198 people have one; it is 1.71 away.

Targets move as he improves.