People · Brazil
Karina Lopes Barboza
3×3 · top 5.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024BARB12
Karina Lopes Barboza has been competing for 2 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.32, set at Campeonato Nordestino ABRACM 2025, puts her in the top 5.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 264th in Brazil. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since March 2024, she has put 213 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 12.21 in March 2024 to 9.32, a 24% improvement. Karina has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Brazil | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 9.32 | 12.16 | top 5.6% | 264 / 9,644 | |
| Pyraminx | 8.07 | 11.81 | top 36.8% | 887 / 3,208 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 27.49 | 31.71 | top 40.6% | 631 / 1,992 | |
| 2×2 | 5.91 | 7.44 | top 50.0% | 1,950 / 5,137 | |
| 5×5 | 2:08.47 | 2:15.97 | top 54.6% | 363 / 845 | |
| Skewb | 15.55 | 18.85 | top 80.0% | 1,071 / 1,463 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 19 Sep 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.42 at Campeonato Nordestino ABRACM 2025.
- 23 Mar 2024First competition: Iguatemi Fortaleza II 2024. A 12.21 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Campeonato Nordestino ABRACM 2025 · 19 Sep 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Cearense 2025 · 14 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Natal Mágico RioMar Kennedy Fortaleza 2024 · 7 Dec 2024
- Skewbeleza Fortaleza II 2024 · 12 Oct 2024
- Iguatemi Fortaleza V 2024 · 28 Sep 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Kumon Fortaleza 2024 · 14 Sep 2024
- Iguatemi Fortaleza IV 2024 · 6 Jul 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Iguatemi Fortaleza III 2024 · 25 May 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- RioMar Kennedy Fortaleza 2024 · 13 Apr 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Iguatemi Fortaleza II 2024 · 23 Mar 2024
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.
- Levi Cordeiro do Vale Menezes — met in 40 rounds, never finished ahead
- Lucas Cordeiro do Vale Menezes — met in 40 rounds, never finished ahead
- Thiago de Oliveira Rodrigues — met in 37 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.32 away.
- A sub-8 Pyraminx single — 46,752 people have one; it is 0.07 away.
Targets move as she improves.