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Matias Alaniz

3×3 · top 66.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2016 · 2016ALAN01

Matias Alaniz has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 32.44, set at Berkeley Fall 2016, puts him in the top 66.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 40,060th in the United States. Across 5 competitions since January 2016, he has put 28 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 48.69 in January 2016 to 32.44, a 33% improvement. Matias has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 66.6% of 284,439 all-time
32.44
signature single · Berkeley Fall 2016
28
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×332.4440.76
top 66.6%40,060 / 59,724
2×29.3115.06
top 75.0%31,063 / 40,951

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

Bay Area Speedcubin' 8 2016: 48.69Berkeley Winter 2016: 39.20Berkeley Summer 2016: 38.06Hayward Rubik's Rumble 2016: 39.27Berkeley Fall 2016: 32.4432.4448.693 Jan 201619 Nov 2016

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.

  • Riley Woo — met in 6 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Ryan Jew — met in 6 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Edward Lin — met in 6 rounds, never finished ahead

Next targets

  • A sub-30 3×3 single — 177,856 people have one; it is 2.44 away.
  • A sub-8 2×2 single — 126,624 people have one; it is 1.31 away.

Targets move as he improves.