People · Brazil
Luiz Fernando Santos de Sousa
Clock · top 2.8% of 32,048 all-time · competing since May 2024 · 2024SOUS10
Luiz Fernando Santos de Sousa has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 4.26, set at SAJ Águas da Prata 2026, puts him in the top 2.8% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 10th in Brazil. Until June 2015, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 34 competitions since May 2024, he has put 809 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 96% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.46 in May 2024 to 9.82, a 65% improvement. Luiz has entered 34 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Brazil | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clock | 4.26 | 5.27 | top 2.8% | 10 / 723 | |
| 2×2 | 1.94 | 5.22 | top 4.4% | 131 / 5,137 | |
| 3×3 | 9.82 | 11.98 | top 7.0% | 326 / 9,644 | |
| Skewb | 5.38 | 11.65 | top 21.1% | 259 / 1,463 | |
| 4×4 | 48.52 | 53.98 | top 22.8% | 291 / 1,855 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 21.90 | 27.15 | top 25.7% | 382 / 1,992 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.77 | 12.72 | top 26.0% | 599 / 3,208 | |
| 5×5 | 1:49.88 | 1:54.59 | top 42.5% | 253 / 845 | |
| Megaminx | 2:04.98 | 2:33.85 | top 48.5% | 418 / 1,062 | |
| Square-1 | 31.34 | 40.78 | top 51.9% | 291 / 647 | |
| 6×6 | 4:02.51 | 4:27.37 | top 66.2% | 173 / 307 | |
| 7×7 | 13:51.00 | — | early days — 1 solve | 257 / 269 |
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
- 6 Jun 2026Three personal bests in one day at SAJ Águas da Prata 2026.
- 28 Mar 2026Three personal bests in one day at Forgotten O'Clocks SBC 2026.
- 7 Feb 2026Three personal bests in one day at Curitiba Contra o Tempo 2026.
- 8 Nov 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.82 at SESI Cubatão 2025.
- 4 Oct 2025Three personal bests in one day at II Campos do Jordão Open 2025.
- 18 Jul 2025Five personal bests in one day at Campeonato Brasileiro de Cubo Mágico 2025.
Competitions
- I Rei do Cubo Cubatão 2026 · 22 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Luminous Sol Open 2026 · 25 Jul 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Golden Square Shopping 2026 · 11 Jul 2026
- SESI Cubatão 2026 · 13 Jun 2026
- SAJ Águas da Prata 2026 · 6 Jun 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- FECAP 2026 · 23 May 2026
- INUMP São Paulo 2026 · 25 Apr 2026
- Shopping Parque da Cidade 2026 · 11 Apr 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Forgotten O'Clocks SBC 2026 · 28 Mar 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Mega Geek Festival 2026 · 22 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Guará Garage 2026 · 21 Feb 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Curitiba Contra o Tempo 2026 · 7 Feb 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Itapeva 2026 · 24 Jan 2026 — 1 personal best set
- SESI Cubatão 2025 · 8 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- II Aquático Aclimação Open 2025 · 1 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- II Golden Square Shopping 2025 · 25 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- II Campos do Jordão Open 2025 · 4 Oct 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Bora Bora Quick Rio 2025 · 21 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Desafio Nipo-Brasileiro BH 2025 · 20 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Forgotten O'Minx SBC 2025 · 2 Aug 2025
- Campeonato Brasileiro de Cubo Mágico 2025 · 18 Jul 2025 — 5 personal bests set
- Desafio Hungria em SP 2025 · 14 Jun 2025 — 1 personal best set
- SAJ Águas da Prata 2025 · 7 Jun 2025 — 6 personal bests set
- Aquático Aclimação Open 2025 · 18 May 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Forgotten O'Clocks SBC 2025 · 12 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Morumbi Open 2025 · 15 Mar 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Campos do Jordão Open 2025 · 15 Feb 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Golden Square Shopping 2025 · 18 Jan 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- II CubeBook Campinas 2024 · 8 Dec 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- SPAC Open 2024 · 27 Oct 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- SJC Mazza Open 2024 · 28 Sep 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Forgotten O'Clocks II SBC 2024 · 7 Sep 2024
- Taboão da Serra Open 2024 · 24 Aug 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- FECAP Open 2024 · 25 May 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 his.
- Fabio Bini Graciose — met in 146 rounds, finished ahead 77 times
- Caio Hideaki Sato — met in 138 rounds, finished ahead 12 times
- Gabriel Vasconcellos Zavrisko dos Santos — met in 118 rounds, finished ahead 24 times
Next targets
- A sub-4 Clock single — 741 people have one; it is 0.26 away.
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.94 away.
Targets move as he improves.