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Tadeo Villanueva

3×3 · top 6.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2014 · 2014VILL06

Tadeo Villanueva has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.68, set at CECREA 2016, puts him in the top 6.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 347th in Mexico. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since August 2014, he has put 367 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 6 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.94 in October 2014 to 9.68, a 51% improvement. Tadeo has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.6% of 284,439 all-time
9.68
signature single · CECREA 2016
367
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMexico
3×39.6811.14
top 6.6%347 / 4,263
Skewb3.476.03
top 7.5%135 / 1,157
2×22.693.47
top 10.8%479 / 3,018
Pyraminx5.679.36
top 17.6%667 / 2,003
4×445.4450.95
top 18.8%415 / 1,845
3×3 one-handed25.5431.83
top 35.6%648 / 1,672
5×51:55.182:04.65
top 46.1%0 / 1,010
Megaminx2:08.172:26.73
top 50.2%574 / 1,042
Square-138.3544.47
top 63.2%311 / 516

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

Las Lomas 2014: 19.94La Florida Open 2015: 14.88LSLC Open 2015: 13.72Valpo 2015: 13.05Campeonato Chileno de Invierno 2015: 12.62Instituto Nacional Open 2015: 10.87Las Lomas 2015: 10.42Campeonato Chileno de Verano 2016: 12.46CECREA 2016: 9.68Instituto Nacional Open 2016: 10.439.6819.9418 Oct 201423 Apr 2016

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 1.68 away.
  • A sub-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.47 away.

Targets move as he improves.