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Ethan Damien Tarco

3×3 · top 2.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2018 · 2018TARC01

Ethan Damien Tarco has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.83, set at Tulcan Open 2023, puts him in the top 2.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 14th in Ecuador. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since January 2018, he has put 336 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 40.62 in January 2018 to 7.83, an 81% improvement. Ethan has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.5% of 284,439 all-time
7.83
signature single · Tulcan Open 2023
336
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingEcuador
3×37.8311.30
top 2.5%14 / 1,104
Pyraminx3.436.17
top 5.2%17 / 394
2×22.364.07
top 7.6%43 / 686
Skewb4.568.75
top 14.9%26 / 165
3×3 one-handed18.5822.71
top 16.6%46 / 243
4×445.6350.36
top 19.1%52 / 272
Megaminx1:39.881:48.52
top 34.6%48 / 115
Clock13.41
early days — 3 solves19 / 56
5×51:57.272:04.22
top 47.6%58 / 108
Square-131.6141.77
top 52.5%17 / 36

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

Tulcan Open 2018: 40.62Sin Fronteras Championship 2018: 19.95Sin Fronteras Ecuador 2019: 12.42Ibarra Open 2022: 10.53Ecuador Nationals 2022: 10.34Tulcan Open 2023: 7.83Sin Fronteras Ecuador 2023: 8.617.8340.626 Jan 20182 Dec 2023

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.83 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.43 away.

Targets move as he improves.