Third conditional: explanation and examples
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The third conditional looks back at completed past events and imagines how changing one condition would have produced a different outcome. Both the condition and the result refer entirely to the past, describing an imaginary version of events that never actually took place.
If we had checked the oven, we would have taken the cake out sooner.