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Isaias Villanueva

3×3 · top 8.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2016 · 2016VILL01

Isaias Villanueva has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.45, set at Berkeley Summer 2018, puts him in the top 8.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,827th in the United States. Until February 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since January 2016, he has put 114 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.76 in January 2016 to 10.45, a 69% improvement. Isaias has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.8% of 284,439 all-time
10.45
signature single · Berkeley Summer 2018
114
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×310.4512.06
top 8.8%4,827 / 59,724
Skewb4.438.83
top 13.9%2,171 / 18,907
2×23.344.72
top 18.3%7,152 / 40,951
4×453.321:01.90
top 28.7%4,475 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed24.1630.23
top 31.9%4,154 / 15,683

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

Bay Area Speedcubin' 8 2016: 33.76Berkeley Winter 2016: 23.80Berkeley Summer 2016: 22.71Hayward Rubik's Rumble 2016: 17.70Berkeley Fall 2016: 18.95Berkeley Winter 2017: 23.80Berkeley Spring 2018: 12.96Berkeley Summer 2018: 10.45Bay Area Speedcubin' 12 2018: 10.9310.4533.763 Jan 201621 Oct 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 his.

  • Ryan Jew — met in 23 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
  • Evan Mann — met in 22 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
  • Jacob Posner — met in 22 rounds, finished ahead 4 times

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.45 away.
  • A sub-4 Skewb single — 7,977 people have one; it is 0.43 away.

Targets move as he improves.