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Lucero Esmeralda Alvarado Ruíz

3×3 one-handed · top 2.3% of 73,695 all-time · competing since July 2014 · 2014RUIZ12

Lucero Esmeralda Alvarado Ruíz has been competing for 12 years. Her best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 11.39, set at Centauros Open 2020, puts her in the top 2.3% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 39th in Mexico. Until August 2010, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since July 2014, she has put 632 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 11.83 in July 2014 to 8.57, a 28% improvement. Lucero has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 2.3% of 73,695 all-time
11.39
signature single · Centauros Open 2020
632
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 74% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMexico
3×3 one-handed11.3915.36
top 2.3%39 / 1,672
3×38.5710.74
top 3.9%195 / 4,263
4×439.9548.05
top 12.1%267 / 1,845
2×22.845.11
top 12.4%482 / 3,018
5×51:23.201:32.61
top 21.7%247 / 1,010
Clock19.4022.45
top 62.9%438 / 652
6×64:05.33
early days — 3 solves350 / 510
7×76:47.587:01.73
top 78.0%360 / 472

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

Aguascalientes Summer 2014: 11.83Rubik Zacatecas 2017: 10.72Metropolitano 2017: 11.63Tunas Open 2018: 9.62Vitesse Monterrey 2018: 10.78Mexican Championship 2018: 9.17Metropolitano Monterrey 2018: 9.57Tunas Open 2019: 8.57Beyond Zacatecas 2019: 9.61La Silla 2019: 9.92Misión México 2019: 10.47Quetzal Cubing 2019: 8.92Cubing Zacatecas 2019: 10.41La Silla II 2019: 9.76Centauros Open 2020: 9.79Pitic Open 2023: 9.93Minerva Guadalajara 2023: 9.71Cronos Querétaro 2023: 11.33Mexican Championship 2023: 10.40La Silla lV Monterrey 2024: 10.818.5711.8326 Jul 20146 Jul 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 1.39 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.57 away.

Targets move as she improves.