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Ismael Romero Salazar

3×3 · top 4.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2022 · 2022SALA06

Ismael Romero Salazar has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.78, set at Archena Open 2022, puts him in the top 4.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 184th in Spain. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 2 competitions since August 2022, he has put 67 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 9% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. Ismael has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 4.4% of 284,439 all-time
8.78
signature single · Archena Open 2022
67
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSpain
3×38.7810.37
top 4.4%184 / 5,141
2×22.364.35
top 7.6%301 / 3,845
4×442.9145.91
top 15.6%212 / 1,762
5×51:46.092:06.53
top 40.0%268 / 863

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

Archena Open 2022: 8.78Campeonato de España 2022: 9.048.789.045 Aug 20227 Oct 2022

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.78 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.36 away.

Targets move as he improves.