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Pablo Illanes Cruz

Square-1 · top 4.2% of 25,272 all-time · competing since November 2016 · 2016CRUZ28

Pablo Illanes Cruz has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 8.80, set at Melipilla Open 2018, puts him in the top 4.2% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13th in Chile. Until October 2010, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since November 2016, he has put 174 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 52% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.95 in November 2016 to 10.88, a 39% improvement. Pablo has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 4.2% of 25,272 all-time
8.80
signature single · Melipilla Open 2018
174
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChile
Square-18.8012.88
top 4.2%13 / 176
3×310.8814.31
top 10.1%205 / 2,080
2×23.065.45
top 14.9%180 / 1,303
Skewb4.978.89
top 17.9%75 / 314
4×41:02.811:18.12
top 39.5%259 / 562
3×3 one-handed30.5538.42
top 47.9%231 / 458

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

Florida 2016: 17.95IN OPEN 2.0 2017: 15.97Rubik Soletta Santiago 2017: 15.95Open La Florida 2017: 12.79DEC Open 2017: 14.47Melipilla Open 2018: 10.88CCP 2018: 12.75La Serena Open 2018: 12.6710.8817.9519 Nov 201617 Mar 2018

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-8 Square-1 single — 766 people have one; it is 0.80 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.88 away.

Targets move as he improves.