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Alex Dutulescu
3×3 · top 8.2% of 288,433 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024DUTU01
Alex Dutulescu has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.24, set at The Big Cube Melbourne 2025, puts him in the top 8.2% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 754th in Australia. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since March 2024, he has put 220 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 54% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.69 in March 2024 to 10.24, a 25% improvement. Alex has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Australia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.24 | 12.39 | top 8.2% | 754 / 11,943 | |
| 2×2 | 3.08 | 5.31 | top 15.2% | 1,184 / 8,727 | |
| Clock | 17.56 | 19.76 | top 57.4% | 632 / 1,159 | |
| Pyraminx | 10.96 | 16.05 | top 60.2% | 3,610 / 6,109 | |
| 4×4 | 1:36.31 | — | early days — 2 solves | 1,998 / 3,108 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 2 Mar 2024First competition: Altona Algorithms 2024. A 15.09 3×3 single to start from.
- 2 Mar 2024First sub-15 3×3: 13.69 at Altona Algorithms 2024.
Competitions
- Spark Melbourne Autumn Saturday 2026 · 23 May 2026
- Melbourne Cube Days 2025 · 29 Nov 2025
- The Big Cube Melbourne 2025 · 11 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Spark Melbourne July 2025 · 26 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- VIC State Championship 2025 · 31 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Solving in Sale 2025 · 11 Apr 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Spark Melbourne February 2025 · 22 Feb 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Melbourne Summer 2025 · 24 Jan 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Melbourne Cube Days 2024 · 30 Nov 2024
- Spark Melbourne Spring Sunday 2024 · 6 Oct 2024 — 1 personal best set
- The Big Cube Melbourne 2024 · 20 Jul 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Kensington May Saturday 2024 · 11 May 2024
- Altona Algorithms 2024 · 2 Mar 2024 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Ben Wakelin — met in 40 rounds, finished ahead once
- Myles Jarman — met in 40 rounds, never finished ahead
- Nicholas Allen Crow — met in 38 rounds, finished ahead 28 times
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,606 people have one; it is 0.24 away.
- A sub-3 2×2 single — 27,049 people have one; it is 0.08 away.
Targets move as he improves.