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Matheus Paes de Barros Gaio

2×2 · top 5.8% of 186,767 all-time · competing since November 2025 · 2025GAIO01

Matheus Paes de Barros Gaio has been competing for 10 months. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.15, set at Campeonato do Cerrado ABRACM 2025, puts him in the top 5.8% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 182nd in Brazil. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 1 competition since November 2025, he has put 34 official solves on the record across four events.

2×2
best event — top 5.8% of 186,767 all-time
2.15
signature single · Campeonato do Cerrado ABRACM 2025
34
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingBrazil
2×22.157.16
top 5.8%182 / 5,137
3×320.5523.72
top 41.5%2,658 / 9,644
3×3 one-handed39.9647.19
top 65.2%1,134 / 1,992
Pyraminx14.6316.16
top 80.5%2,263 / 3,208

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 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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.15 away.
  • A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 0.55 away.

Targets move as he improves.