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Valdinei Cordeiro dos Santos

Skewb · top 43.3% of 73,281 all-time · competing since May 2014 · 2014SANT22

Valdinei Cordeiro dos Santos has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 8.27, set at BOB 2017, puts him in the top 43.3% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 544th in Brazil. Across 9 competitions since May 2014, he has put 137 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 71% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 51.48 in May 2014 to 27.59, a 46% improvement. Valdinei has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 43.3% of 73,281 all-time
8.27
signature single · BOB 2017
137
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 71% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingBrazil
Skewb8.2712.03
top 43.3%544 / 1,463
3×327.5933.65
top 58.0%4,081 / 9,644
2×28.1511.20
top 68.8%2,948 / 5,137
Pyraminx14.8221.31
top 81.2%2,290 / 3,208
4×42:17.81
early days — 3 solves1,529 / 1,855

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

Brasilia Open 2014: 51.48Brasilia Open 2015: 35.57Brasilia Spring 2015: 36.46Brasília Open 2016: 29.45Brasília Spring 2016: 30.67Brasileiro 2017: 31.21BOB 2017: 27.59Brasília Spring 2017: 29.50Brasília Open 2018: 35.2827.5951.4817 May 201426 May 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-8 Skewb single — 30,246 people have one; it is 0.27 away.
  • A sub-25 3×3 single — 149,621 people have one; it is 2.59 away.

Targets move as he improves.