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Thaynara Santana de Oliveira

3×3 · top 3.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2011 · 2011OLIV03

Thaynara Santana de Oliveira has been competing for 15 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.48, set at Weston-super-Mare Open 2019, puts her in the top 3.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 161st in Brazil. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 36 competitions since July 2011, she has put 1,567 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 14.97 in July 2011 to 8.48, a 43% improvement. Thaynara has entered 36 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.7% of 284,439 all-time
8.48
signature single · Weston-super-Mare Open 2019
1,567
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingBrazil
3×38.4810.07
top 3.7%161 / 9,644
2×21.924.96
top 4.2%126 / 5,137
Pyraminx3.507.47
top 5.5%118 / 3,208
4×436.0442.68
top 7.7%80 / 1,855
Skewb6.0520.11
top 26.1%328 / 1,463
5×51:29.581:35.92
top 26.9%147 / 845
Megaminx1:31.371:49.38
top 29.1%232 / 1,062
3×3 one-handed32.6040.55
top 52.5%846 / 1,992
Clock16.8422.14
top 54.9%355 / 723
6×66:39.42—
early days — 2 solves267 / 307
7×713:01.00—
early days — 2 solves251 / 269

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

SESC Santos 2011: 14.97Lagarto Open 2012: 13.83SESC Santos 2012: 13.52Aracaju Open 2012: 12.33Edinburgh Open 2013: 11.86II Aracaju Open 2014: 12.22Oxford Winter 2014: 12.05World Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 15.03Welcome Thay Cambridge 2015: 13.70Oxente Open 2016: 11.56European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 11.52Brasileiro 2016: 11.75Ó Paí Open 2016: 10.07Oxente Open 2017: 10.79Alagoinhas Open 2017: 11.32BBQ & Cube 2017: 12.23Hillcrest Cubing 2017: 10.87London Open 2017: 10.84World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 9.45Villa Open 2017: 8.99Italian Championship 2017: 11.83Peterborough Open 2018: 10.28WCA European Championship 2018: 9.53WCA South American Championship 2018: 12.07Welsh Open 2019: 11.30Chester Open 2019: 12.05Lincoln Open 2019: 11.25London Open 2019: 11.55High Wycombe Open 2019: 10.76Irish Championship 2019: 11.50WCA World Championship 2019: 11.42August Bank Holiday Celebration 2019: 11.66UK Championship 2019: 10.92Weston-super-Mare Open 2019: 8.48Guildford Open 2020: 11.56Fontwell Open 2020: 10.048.4815.0315 Jul 20118 Feb 2020

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.48 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.92 away.

Targets move as she improves.