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Riel Grumal

3×3 · top 6.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2013 · 2013GRUM01

Riel Grumal has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.63, set at Good Nutrition Cube Day 2016, puts him in the top 6.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 651st in the Philippines. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since May 2013, he has put 433 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.13 in May 2013 to 9.63, a 52% improvement. Riel has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.4% of 284,439 all-time
9.63
signature single · Good Nutrition Cube Day 2016
433
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPhilippines
3×39.6312.20
top 6.4%651 / 6,270
4×436.3444.18
top 8.0%193 / 2,135
2×22.564.14
top 9.5%366 / 4,257
Pyraminx4.587.28
top 10.7%278 / 2,621
3×3 one-handed19.5925.55
top 19.4%486 / 2,440
Skewb5.358.01
top 20.9%324 / 1,320
5×51:25.841:36.96
top 24.0%259 / 928
Megaminx1:37.841:53.87
top 33.3%254 / 690
3×3 blindfolded8:22.71
early days — 1 solve270 / 274

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

SNES Open 2013: 20.13Art Capital Open 2013: 17.36Shoe Capital Open 2014: 14.19Pista'y Dayat Speed Cubing Championship 2014: 14.31Cube Clash 2014: 13.56Urdaneta City Fiesta Open 2014: 12.55Valenzuela Cubing Summit 2015: 10.75CGJV Speedcubing Open 2015: 11.34360 Degrees Wellness Open 2015: 12.78Good Nutrition Cube Day 2016: 9.63Hari ng Norte 2016: 10.84Cube Ala-eh II 2017: 12.29Philippine Championship 2017: 10.07Urdaneta City Fiesta Open 2017: 10.289.6320.1325 May 20132 Dec 2017

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 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.63 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 6.34 away.

Targets move as he improves.