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Alexandru Badea

3×3 · top 11.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2013 · 2013BADE01

Alexandru Badea has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.26, set at Romanian National Day 2018, puts him in the top 11.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 152nd in Romania. Across 12 competitions since November 2013, he has put 143 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.30 in November 2013 to 11.26, a 57% improvement. Alexandru has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 11.3% of 284,439 all-time
11.26
signature single · Romanian National Day 2018
143
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRomania
3×311.2614.68
top 11.3%152 / 1,574
3×3 one-handed27.8138.78
top 41.4%136 / 411
4×41:32.06
top 65.1%301 / 578
3×3 blindfolded3:59.13
early days — 1 solve47 / 76

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

Valcea Rubik Open 2013: 26.30Bucharest Rubik Open 2014: 16.18Bucharest Rubik Summer 2014: 16.05U.R.A. Rubik Open 2016: 11.49U.R.A. Spring 2016: 14.97U.R.A. Back to School 2016: 12.65U.R.A. Easter Open 2017: 13.24U.R.A. Back to School 2017: 12.89U.R.A. Spring of Colors 2018: 13.01Romanian National Day 2018: 11.26U.R.A. Spring of Colors 2019: 13.98ICHB Cube Race 2019: 12.3611.2626.309 Nov 201320 Jul 2019

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.26 away.
  • A sub-25 3×3 one-handed single — 25,198 people have one; it is 2.81 away.

Targets move as he improves.