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Santiago Joya

3×3 · top 16.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2016 · 2016JOYA01

Santiago Joya has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.74, set at Rubik's Cube UPN 2017, puts him in the top 16.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 701st in Colombia. Across 6 competitions since May 2016, he has put 60 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 96% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.18 in May 2016 to 12.74, a 58% improvement. Santiago has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 16.5% of 284,439 all-time
12.74
signature single · Rubik's Cube UPN 2017
60
official solves on the record
17%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 96% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingColombia
3×312.7419.55
top 16.5%701 / 5,812
2×25.957.04
top 50.4%1,621 / 3,615

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

Torneo Nacional Colombia 2016: 30.18GeniusCube 2016: 19.14Nacionales de SpeedCubing 2017: 21.66Latin America Cubing Tour - Chía 2017: 15.97Rubik's Cube UPN 2017: 12.74Feliz Navidad Bogotá 2019: 17.5712.7430.187 May 201615 Dec 2019

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 0.74 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.95 away.

Targets move as he improves.