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Lui Villarias

3×3 · top 13.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2021 · 2021VILL01

Lui Villarias has been competing for 6 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.80, set at NZ North Island Championship 2023, puts him in the top 13.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 275th in New Zealand. Across 11 competitions since January 2021, he has put 327 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.10 in January 2021 to 11.80, a 35% improvement. Lui has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 13.2% of 284,439 all-time
11.80
signature single · NZ North Island Championship 2023
327
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNew Zealand
3×311.8013.40
top 13.2%275 / 2,095
3×3 one-handed20.7126.25
top 22.5%124 / 600
2×24.505.47
top 32.9%575 / 1,615
Pyraminx7.7412.40
top 34.0%454 / 1,141
4×459.911:06.94
top 36.4%226 / 722
Skewb11.5115.53
top 63.6%446 / 666
3×3 blindfolded4:20.79
early days — 1 solve71 / 86

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

A New Year in Auckland 2021: 18.10Twisty Taranaki 2021: 15.99NZ South Island Championship 2021: 13.48NZ North Island Championship 2021: 12.19Popping Off Pukekohe B 2022: 12.78NZ South Island Championship 2022: 12.48New Zealand Nationals 2022: 13.03Auckland Autumn 2023: 13.98Auckland Mid-Year Madness 2023: 12.16NZ North Island Championship 2023: 11.8011.8018.108 Jan 202127 Oct 2023

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.80 away.
  • A sub-20 3×3 one-handed single — 15,081 people have one; it is 0.71 away.

Targets move as he improves.