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Walter Pereira Rodrigues de Souza

3×3 blindfolded · top 6.5% of 12,178 all-time · competing since March 2010 · 2010SOUZ01

Walter Pereira Rodrigues de Souza has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3 blindfolded: a personal-best single of 38.58, set at SESC Santos 2017, puts him in the top 6.5% of the 12,178 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 15th in Brazil. Until August 2009, no official 3×3 blindfolded solve in the world had been that fast. Across 29 competitions since March 2010, he has put 571 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 65% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.03 in March 2010 to 12.12, a 33% improvement. Walter has entered 29 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 blindfolded
best event — top 6.5% of 12,178 all-time
38.58
signature single · SESC Santos 2017
571
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingBrazil
3×3 blindfolded38.5855.48
top 6.5%15 / 333
3×3 Multi-Blind14 of 16 cubes · 54:40
top 12.6%13 / 117
3×312.1214.59
top 14.3%753 / 9,644
3×3 one-handed26.2231.79
top 37.4%563 / 1,992
4×4 blindfolded7:33.94
top 40.8%16 / 49
4×41:17.531:27.17
top 53.9%818 / 1,855
5×5 blindfolded28:05.00
early days — 3 solves13 / 21
Clock39.8353.72
top 93.1%656 / 723

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

ABC Open 2010: 18.03SESC Santos 2011: 16.22Uberlandia Open 2011: 13.81Novo Hamburgo Open 2011: 14.08Agulhas Negras Open 2012: 13.86Uberlândia Open 2012: 14.84SESC Santos 2012: 16.61Novo Hamburgo II 2012: 14.85SESC Pompeia 2013: 14.90São Paulo Open 2013: 13.52Oficina Open 2013: 14.86SESC Interlagos 2013: 14.08Campeonato Brasileiro de Cubo Mágico 2013: 14.26Novo Hamburgo Open III 2013: 14.44Goiânia Open 2013: 13.171º Aberto Valeparaibano de Cubo Mágico 2013: 14.70SESC Santo Amaro 2014: 12.65São Paulo Open 2014: 15.89Brasileiro Etapa de Inverno 2014: 13.25Joana D'Arc Open 2014: 13.63Pré-Mundial 2015: 13.05World Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 17.14Torneio Mestre Álvaro de Cubo Mágico 2016: 12.58Brasileiro 2016: 15.36SESC Gravataí 2017: 12.12SESC Santos 2017: 13.0612.1218.0320 Mar 201028 Jul 2017

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-30 3×3 blindfolded single — 501 people have one; it is 8.58 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.12 away.

Targets move as he improves.