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Gabriel Brian Balbuena Gutiérrez

3×3 · top 18.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2017 · 2017GUTI22

Gabriel Brian Balbuena Gutiérrez has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.34, set at Return Open 2017, puts him in the top 18.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,019th in Mexico. Across 1 competition since November 2017, he has put 26 official solves on the record across seven events.

3×3
best event — top 18.6% of 284,439 all-time
13.34
signature single · Return Open 2017
26
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMexico
3×313.3416.75
top 18.6%1,019 / 4,263
4×450.9355.29
top 25.9%585 / 1,845
5×51:51.71
early days — 2 solves493 / 1,010
2×26.336.99
top 54.3%1,851 / 3,018
Pyraminx10.2011.78
top 54.6%1,205 / 2,003
6×63:34.184:03.27
early days — 3 solves290 / 510
7×75:25.42
early days — 1 solve267 / 472

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 story so far

  • 18 Nov 2017First competition: Return Open 2017. A 13.34 3×3 single to start from.

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 1.34 away.
  • A sub-50 4×4 single — 20,746 people have one; it is 0.93 away.

Targets move as he improves.