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Mateus Lima

3×3 · top 8.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2015 · 2015LIMA02

Mateus Lima has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.44, set at Berkeley Fall 2019, puts him in the top 8.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 436th in Brazil. Until February 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since February 2015, he has put 60 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.30 in February 2015 to 10.44, a 49% improvement. Mateus has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.8% of 284,439 all-time
10.44
signature single · Berkeley Fall 2019
60
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingBrazil
3×310.4413.36
top 8.8%436 / 9,644
4×455.131:01.52
top 30.9%421 / 1,855
2×24.865.83
top 37.5%1,429 / 5,137
Pyraminx9.6413.90
top 50.2%1,250 / 3,208
5×52:20.13
early days — 2 solves418 / 845
3×3 one-handed41.2850.06
top 67.1%1,169 / 1,992

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

BASC 5: Everything But 2x2 2015: 20.306.25 Bay Area 2017: 12.29Berkeley Fall 2018: 11.81Berkeley Fall 2019: 10.4410.4420.3028 Feb 201510 Nov 2019

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 0.44 away.
  • A sub-50 4×4 single — 20,746 people have one; it is 5.13 away.

Targets move as he improves.