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Rui Costa

3×3 · top 21.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2016 · 2016COST05

Rui Costa has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.20, set at CLIP Open 2018, puts him in the top 21.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 135th in Portugal. Across 3 competitions since March 2016, he has put 55 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.69 in March 2016 to 14.20, a 15% improvement. Rui has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 21.7% of 284,439 all-time
14.20
signature single · CLIP Open 2018
55
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPortugal
3×314.2015.76
top 21.7%135 / 547
4×41:00.971:08.03
top 37.5%82 / 223
Pyraminx8.3113.86
top 38.9%120 / 262
2×27.549.54
top 64.6%264 / 417

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

CLIP Open 2016: 16.69Explorarubik 2017: 15.72CLIP Open 2018: 14.2014.2016.6912 Mar 201610 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.20 away.
  • A sub-1:00 4×4 single — 30,601 people have one; it is 0.97 away.

Targets move as he improves.