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Gustavo Vaz Costa

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 1.5% of 12,294 all-time · competing since September 2019 · 2019COST14

Gustavo Vaz Costa has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 21 moves, set at Poções 2023, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3rd in Brazil. Across 5 competitions since September 2019, he has put 103 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.93 in September 2019 to 13.93, a 22% improvement. Gustavo has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 1.5% of 12,294 all-time
21 moves
signature single · Poções 2023
103
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingBrazil
3×3 Fewest Moves21 moves23.67
top 1.5%3 / 360
3×313.9319.12
top 20.7%1,170 / 9,644
Pyraminx6.1410.15
top 21.0%484 / 3,208
3×3 one-handed33.7338.63
top 54.9%890 / 1,992
2×27.508.54
top 64.3%2,689 / 5,137
3×3 blindfolded3:44.80
early days — 2 solves184 / 333
4×41:31.861:53.71
top 65.0%1,016 / 1,855

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

Sun City Open 2019: 17.93Oxente Open 2019: 13.93Campeonato Baiano 2020: 14.8613.9317.9328 Sep 201914 Feb 2020

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.93 away.
  • A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 0.14 away.

Targets move as he improves.