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Efrain Contreras

3×3 · top 43.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2012 · 2012CONT03

Efrain Contreras has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 21.21, set at Antelope Valley Fall 2014, puts him in the top 43.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 24,825th in the United States. Across 5 competitions since August 2012, he has put 41 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 20% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 50.09 in August 2012 to 21.21, a 58% improvement. Efrain has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 43.3% of 284,439 all-time
21.21
signature single · Antelope Valley Fall 2014
41
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×321.2130.99
top 43.3%24,825 / 59,724
2×210.5612.85
top 80.0%33,202 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed59.711:09.86
top 83.7%12,532 / 15,683

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

United States National Championships 2012: 50.09World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 28.81Antelope Valley Fall 2013: 35.93Antelope Valley Fall 2014: 21.21Cubing at SkillCon 2015: 26.6521.2150.093 Aug 20127 Nov 2015

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-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 1.21 away.
  • A sub-10 2×2 single — 145,545 people have one; it is 0.56 away.

Targets move as he improves.