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Byron Gomes

3×3 · top 54.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2014 · 2014GOME21

Byron Gomes has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 25.68, set at Johannesburg 2016, puts him in the top 54.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 842nd in South Africa. Across 6 competitions since November 2014, he has put 99 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 2:30.84 in November 2014 to 25.68, an 83% improvement. Byron has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 54.1% of 284,439 all-time
25.68
signature single · Johannesburg 2016
99
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
3×325.6832.91
top 54.1%842 / 2,164
2×26.5216.79
top 56.2%640 / 1,510
Skewb14.0537.21
top 74.9%293 / 438
Pyraminx20.7524.41
top 93.8%870 / 946
3×3 one-handed1:29.821:56.69
top 94.8%404 / 467
Megaminx4:43.275:37.88
top 95.2%230 / 266
4×43:05.723:44.07
top 96.9%473 / 491

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

Johannesburg 2014: 2:30.84Pretoria Science Week 2015: 1:01.71Johannesburg Open 2015: 59.47Johannesburg 2016: 25.68Speedcubes Johannesburg 2017: 31.24Gauteng Autumn 2018: 29.8325.682:30.8423 Nov 201424 Mar 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-25 3×3 single — 149,621 people have one; it is 0.68 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 0.52 away.

Targets move as he improves.