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Jostin Alvarez

3×3 · top 2.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2017 · 2017ALVA27

Jostin Alvarez has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.95, set at Bekubes Open 2018, puts him in the top 2.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13th in Costa Rica. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since September 2017, he has put 331 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Jostin has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.7% of 284,439 all-time
7.95
signature single · Bekubes Open 2018
331
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCosta Rica
3×37.959.73
top 2.7%13 / 367
2×21.642.83
top 2.8%5 / 307
3×3 one-handed12.1214.83
top 3.2%5 / 135
5×51:01.961:11.36
top 6.6%6 / 75
4×439.1743.85
top 11.2%22 / 130
Megaminx1:11.511:19.02
top 16.6%21 / 82
6×62:21.933:01.93
top 21.5%8 / 30
7×73:48.294:04.41
top 26.5%7 / 22
Pyraminx7.859.20
top 35.0%83 / 225
3×3 Fewest Moves41 moves
early days — 2 solves6 / 14
Skewb9.6216.06
top 52.5%83 / 133

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

Bekubes Costa Rica 2017: 8.15Big Bang Open 2018: 8.70Bekubes Open 2018: 7.95Nacionales Guatemala 2018: 8.02Costa Rica Nationals 2018: 8.99Grecia Open 2019: 8.25Score Cube Day 2020: 8.457.958.999 Sep 201729 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.95 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.64 away.

Targets move as he improves.