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Maria Luiza Poletto Kotani

3×3 · top 43.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2014 · 2014KOTA02

Maria Luiza Poletto Kotani has been competing for 12 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 21.29, set at Pré-Mundial 2015, puts her in the top 43.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,826th in Brazil. Across 6 competitions since April 2014, she has put 129 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 77% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 44.51 in April 2014 to 21.29, a 52% improvement. Maria has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 43.5% of 284,439 all-time
21.29
signature single · Pré-Mundial 2015
129
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 77% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingBrazil
3×321.2925.46
top 43.5%2,826 / 9,644
4×41:17.881:36.79
top 54.1%823 / 1,855
Pyraminx10.8914.14
top 59.7%1,544 / 3,208
2×28.6511.17
top 71.7%3,141 / 5,137
3×3 one-handed46.1947.67
top 72.9%1,306 / 1,992
5×52:58.44
early days — 2 solves575 / 845
Megaminx3:32.63
early days — 2 solves827 / 1,062
6×65:52.21
early days — 1 solve244 / 307
Skewb20.5524.18
top 90.4%1,249 / 1,463
7×79:26.63
early days — 1 solve224 / 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

SESC Santo Amaro 2014: 44.51Oficina Open 2014: 32.48São Paulo Open 2014: 24.44Mogi Open 2014: 25.42Pré-Mundial 2015: 21.29Fecap Open 2017: 22.0521.2944.515 Apr 201427 May 2017

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-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 1.29 away.
  • A sub-1:00 4×4 single — 30,601 people have one; it is 17.88 away.

Targets move as she improves.