People · El Salvador
Melvin Gaitán
3×3 · top 10.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2017 · 2017GAIT01
Melvin Gaitán has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.87, set at Santa Ana Open 2022, puts him in the top 10.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 25th in El Salvador. Across 18 competitions since May 2017, he has put 562 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.29 in May 2017 to 10.87, a 64% improvement. Melvin has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | El Salvador | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.87 | 13.29 | top 10.1% | 25 / 351 | |
| 4×4 | 43.84 | 53.77 | top 16.8% | 11 / 100 | |
| 2×2 | 3.29 | 4.57 | top 17.7% | 39 / 248 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.15 | 9.53 | top 21.1% | 28 / 161 | |
| Square-1 | 17.78 | 22.09 | top 22.8% | 3 / 20 | |
| Skewb | 6.38 | 9.81 | top 28.7% | 23 / 73 | |
| 5×5 | 1:50.12 | 1:55.94 | top 42.6% | 19 / 58 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 30.47 | 36.82 | top 47.7% | 44 / 98 | |
| 6×6 | 3:47.76 | 4:38.37 | top 61.5% | 14 / 22 | |
| Megaminx | 3:09.36 | — | early days — 3 solves | 32 / 35 | |
| Clock | 41.62 | 47.65 | top 94.0% | 19 / 23 |
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
- 13 Feb 2022Four personal bests in one day at Santa Ana Open 2022.
- 27 Jun 2021Three personal bests in one day at Happy Cubing Acton 2021.
- 13 Dec 2020Three personal bests in one day at Cubing Cafetalon Recargado 2020.
- 30 Nov 2019Five personal bests in one day at Nacionales El Salvador 2019.
- 17 Mar 2019Four personal bests in one day at Tecla Cube Open 2019.
- 27 Oct 2018First sub-15 3×3: 14.77 at Nacionales El Salvador 2018.
Competitions
- Acton Cubing 2023 · 2 Apr 2023
- Cubeando en El Cubo Z 2022 · 18 Sep 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Auditorium de la Paz Cubea 2022 · 14 Aug 2022 — 1 personal best set
- El Palmar Cubing Fest 2022 · 24 Jul 2022
- Santa Ana Open 2022 · 13 Feb 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Happy Cubing Acton Fall 2021 · 27 Nov 2021 — 2 personal bests set
- Happy Cubing Acton 2021 · 27 Jun 2021 — 3 personal bests set
- Santa Tecla NxN 2021 · 25 Apr 2021 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubing Cafetalon Recargado 2020 · 13 Dec 2020 — 3 personal bests set
- Nacionales El Salvador 2019 · 30 Nov 2019 — 5 personal bests set
- Sucursal Del Cielo 2019 · 4 Aug 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Copa Lamatepec 2019 · 6 Apr 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Tecla Cube Open 2019 · 17 Mar 2019 — 4 personal bests set
- Nacionales El Salvador 2018 · 27 Oct 2018 — 4 personal bests set
- Santa Ana Open 2018 · 16 Jun 2018 — 6 personal bests set
- Santa Tecla Cubo Desafio 2018 · 21 Jan 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Happy Cubing El Salvador 2017 · 29 Oct 2017 — 2 personal bests set
- Tecla Rubik 2017 · 6 May 2017
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.
- David Gálvez — met in 111 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
- Isai Oswaldo Gonzalez Canessa — met in 109 rounds, finished ahead 71 times
- Luis Alonso Inestroza Henriquez — met in 101 rounds, finished ahead 41 times
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.87 away.
- A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 3.84 away.
Targets move as he improves.