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João Pedro de Sousa

3×3 one-handed · top 3.6% of 73,695 all-time · competing since October 2016 · 2016SOUS09

João Pedro de Sousa has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 12.41, set at I Bacabal Open 2024, puts him in the top 3.6% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 40th in Brazil. Until January 2010, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since October 2016, he has put 127 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.07 in October 2016 to 8.86, a 12% improvement. He has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 3.6% of 73,695 all-time
12.41
signature single · I Bacabal Open 2024
127
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingBrazil
3×3 one-handed12.4116.13
top 3.6%40 / 1,992
3×38.8610.20
top 4.5%202 / 9,644
Pyraminx3.485.30
top 5.4%116 / 3,208
2×22.284.32
top 6.9%217 / 5,137
4×436.3137.94
top 8.0%85 / 1,855
Megaminx57.511:03.24
top 8.7%60 / 1,062
Skewb5.579.27
top 22.5%278 / 1,463
Square-119.0621.82
top 25.8%136 / 647

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

I CUBIFMA - Bacabal 2016: 10.07VIII CUBIFMA 2023: 9.16I Bacabal Open 2024: 8.868.8610.077 Oct 201619 May 2024

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 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 0.41 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.86 away.

Targets move as he improves.