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Grace Mercado

3×3 · top 21.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2014 · 2014MERC03

Grace Mercado has been competing for 12 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.18, set at ODU Big Blue Spring 2016, puts her in the top 21.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 11,677th in the United States. Across 6 competitions since August 2014, she has put 65 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 19.09 in August 2014 to 14.18, a 26% improvement. Grace has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 21.6% of 284,439 all-time
14.18
signature single · ODU Big Blue Spring 2016
65
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×314.1816.01
top 21.6%11,677 / 59,724
2×26.717.60
top 58.0%23,759 / 40,951

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

US Nationals 2014: 19.09Virginia Open Fall 2014: 15.82US Nationals 2015: 16.04ODU Big Blue Open 2015: 14.27ODU Big Blue Spring 2016: 14.18ODU Big Blue Spring 2017: 14.4114.1819.091 Aug 20144 Mar 2017

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.18 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 0.71 away.

Targets move as she improves.