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Gustavo Costa de Oliveira

3×3 · top 2.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2024 · 2024OLIV34

Gustavo Costa de Oliveira has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.52, set at Araruama Cubing 2025, puts him in the top 2.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 77th in Brazil. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since August 2024, he has put 321 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 85% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.89 in August 2024 to 7.52, a 42% improvement. Gustavo has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.0% of 284,439 all-time
7.52
signature single · Araruama Cubing 2025
321
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 85% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingBrazil
3×37.528.33
top 2.0%77 / 9,644
2×22.314.40
top 7.1%228 / 5,137
Pyraminx6.288.71
top 22.1%506 / 3,208
4×448.5956.68
top 22.9%294 / 1,855
3×3 one-handed21.6024.89
top 24.9%362 / 1,992
Megaminx2:22.202:42.66
top 57.6%517 / 1,062

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

CSD Rio 2024: 12.89Planetário Rio Open 2024: 10.92Campeonato Brasileiro de Cubo Mágico 2024: 10.53Rio Cubolympics 2025: 9.02Paraíso Fall DC 2025: 9.33Paraíso Winter DC 2025: 7.97Araruama Cubing 2025: 7.52Paraíso Spring DC 2025: 8.287.5212.8917 Aug 202413 Dec 2025

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 1.52 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.31 away.

Targets move as he improves.