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Santiago Rivas

3×3 · top 23.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2017 · 2017RIVA11

Santiago Rivas has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.60, set at Arkadia 2022, puts him in the top 23.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 187th in Guatemala. Across 8 competitions since August 2017, he has put 143 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 85% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 4:58.72 in August 2017 to 14.60, a 95% improvement. Santiago has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 23.1% of 284,439 all-time
14.60
signature single · Arkadia 2022
143
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 85% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGuatemala
3×314.6021.01
top 23.1%187 / 1,226
Pyraminx7.2911.51
top 30.3%120 / 466
4×41:12.92
early days — 3 solves147 / 303
2×25.918.55
top 50.0%310 / 717
3×3 one-handed34.9440.97
top 57.2%170 / 303
5×52:35.44
early days — 2 solves118 / 151
Skewb19.2330.50
top 88.4%172 / 199

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

IGA Rubik 2017: 4:58.72Guatemala Championship 2017: 55.42Big Bang Open 2018: 1:19.64Los Próceres 2019: 56.02Big Bang Open 2019: 1:05.22Ixchel 2022: 17.92Arkadia 2022: 14.60Eskala 2022: 18.9014.604:58.7219 Aug 201711 Jun 2022

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 2.60 away.
  • A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 1.29 away.

Targets move as he improves.