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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.

3×3
best event — top 10.1% of 284,439 all-time
10.87
signature single · Santa Ana Open 2022
562
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 74% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingEl Salvador
3×310.8713.29
top 10.1%25 / 351
4×443.8453.77
top 16.8%11 / 100
2×23.294.57
top 17.7%39 / 248
Pyraminx6.159.53
top 21.1%28 / 161
Square-117.7822.09
top 22.8%3 / 20
Skewb6.389.81
top 28.7%23 / 73
5×51:50.121:55.94
top 42.6%19 / 58
3×3 one-handed30.4736.82
top 47.7%44 / 98
6×63:47.764:38.37
top 61.5%14 / 22
Megaminx3:09.36
early days — 3 solves32 / 35
Clock41.6247.65
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

Tecla Rubik 2017: 30.29Happy Cubing El Salvador 2017: 20.81Santa Tecla Cubo Desafio 2018: 19.72Santa Ana Open 2018: 18.11Nacionales El Salvador 2018: 14.77Tecla Cube Open 2019: 14.53Copa Lamatepec 2019: 14.97Sucursal Del Cielo 2019: 13.55Nacionales El Salvador 2019: 14.50Cubing Cafetalon Recargado 2020: 11.28Santa Tecla NxN 2021: 12.00Happy Cubing Acton 2021: 12.55Happy Cubing Acton Fall 2021: 11.33Santa Ana Open 2022: 10.87El Palmar Cubing Fest 2022: 15.45Auditorium de la Paz Cubea 2022: 12.00Cubeando en El Cubo Z 2022: 12.86Acton Cubing 2023: 15.5510.8730.296 May 20172 Apr 2023

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 0.87 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 3.84 away.

Targets move as he improves.