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Carlos Perez-Hijar

3×3 · top 5.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2017 · 2017PERE02

Carlos Perez-Hijar has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.40, set at Michigan 2018, puts him in the top 5.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,243rd in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since January 2017, he has put 184 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.61 in January 2017 to 9.40, a 67% improvement. Carlos has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.8% of 284,439 all-time
9.40
signature single · Michigan 2018
184
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.4011.87
top 5.8%3,243 / 59,724
Skewb3.368.69
top 6.9%1,064 / 18,907
2×22.414.42
top 8.0%3,178 / 40,951
Pyraminx4.7710.12
top 11.8%3,059 / 28,708
4×445.0749.95
top 18.4%2,790 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed20.4523.66
top 21.7%2,786 / 15,683
5×51:42.312:01.74
top 37.1%2,963 / 9,401
Megaminx2:10.962:18.52
top 51.7%3,865 / 7,841
3×3 Fewest Moves47 moves
early days — 3 solves1,479 / 2,040
Square-148.83
top 75.0%4,946 / 6,743

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

Michigan Cubing Club Alpha 2017: 28.61Cool Toons Guadalajara 2017: 16.25Michigan 2017: 12.75Michigan Cubing Club Alpha 2018: 11.55Michigan Cubing Club Beta 2018: 10.74Michigan 2018: 9.409.4028.6121 Jan 201710 Aug 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.40 away.
  • A sub-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.36 away.

Targets move as he improves.