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Helena Vela García

Clock · top 70.8% of 32,048 all-time · competing since July 2010 · 2010GARC05

Helena Vela García has been competing for 16 years. Her best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 22.27, set at Spanish Championship 2011, puts her in the top 70.8% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 606th in Spain. Across 10 competitions since July 2010, she has put 47 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. That figure sets aside her 4 DNFs. Her 3×3 best has come down from 54.80 in December 2011 to 39.84, a 27% improvement. Helena has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 70.8% of 32,048 all-time
22.27
signature single · Spanish Championship 2011
47
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSpain
Clock22.27
top 70.8%606 / 876
3×339.8451.38
top 76.7%3,589 / 5,141
2×213.94
early days — 3 solves3,180 / 3,845
Pyraminx20.6626.69
top 93.7%2,638 / 2,865

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

Spanish Championship 2011: 54.80Barcelona Winter Open 2012: 56.65European Rubik's Cube Championship 2012: 45.61Spanish Championship 2013: 39.84World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 41.10Andorra 2017: 44.03Andorra 2018: 42.4039.8456.6516 Dec 201124 Nov 2018

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-20 Clock single — 20,707 people have one; it is 2.27 away.
  • A sub-30 3×3 single — 177,856 people have one; it is 9.84 away.

Targets move as she improves.