People · Canada
Lin Salvo
3×3 · top 8.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2019 · 2019SALV05
Lin Salvo has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.36, set at Pickering A 2023, puts him in the top 8.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 785th in Canada. Until February 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since June 2019, he has put 260 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 4 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.14 in June 2019 to 10.36, a 40% improvement. Lin has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.36 | 12.28 | top 8.5% | 785 / 10,392 | |
| 2×2 | 2.68 | 3.86 | top 10.7% | 706 / 7,173 | |
| 4×4 | 39.59 | 46.85 | top 11.6% | 284 / 3,118 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 19.28 | 23.50 | top 18.6% | 399 / 2,620 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.88 | 8.67 | top 19.1% | 783 / 4,858 | |
| 5×5 | 1:46.31 | 1:54.34 | top 40.1% | 507 / 1,499 | |
| Skewb | 8.33 | 13.76 | top 43.8% | 1,134 / 2,907 | |
| 6×6 | 4:28.78 | — | early days — 2 solves | 432 / 665 | |
| Megaminx | 3:02.10 | 3:25.65 | top 75.1% | 929 / 1,375 |
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
- 24 Sep 2022Three personal bests in one day at Richmond Hill 2022.
- 29 Feb 2020First sub-15 3×3: 12.62 at Leap to Barrie 2020.
- 7 Dec 2019Three personal bests in one day at No 3x3x3 Cambridge 2019.
- 22 Jun 2019First competition: Newmarket Open 2019. A 17.14 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Markham 3x3x3 Morning 2023 · 29 Apr 2023
- Please Be Quiet Pickering 2023 · 16 Apr 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Pickering A 2023 · 18 Mar 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- London Winter B 2023 · 26 Feb 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Waterloo Favourites B 2023 · 19 Feb 2023
- Appleby Winter B 2023 · 8 Jan 2023
- Oakville Fall A 2022 · 26 Nov 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Ajax NxNxN 2022 · 29 Oct 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Richmond Hill 2022 · 24 Sep 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022 · 7 Jul 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Hamilton Side Events 2022 · 28 May 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Oshawa Favourites 2022 · 7 May 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Leap to Barrie 2020 · 29 Feb 2020 — 1 personal best set
- No 3x3x3 Cambridge 2019 · 7 Dec 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Newmarket Open 2019 · 22 Jun 2019
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.
- Abdullah Gulab — met in 41 rounds, finished ahead 28 times
- Tin Huang — met in 37 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Matthew Lee — met in 37 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.36 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.68 away.
Targets move as he improves.