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Balázs Németh

3×3 · top 4.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2017 · 2017NEME03

Balázs Németh has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.85, set at Budapest Open 2019, puts him in the top 4.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 67th in Hungary. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since October 2017, he has put 158 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.77 in October 2017 to 8.85, a 47% improvement. He has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.5% of 284,439 all-time
8.85
signature single · Budapest Open 2019
158
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingHungary
3×38.8513.72
top 4.5%67 / 1,226
Pyraminx5.798.17
top 18.4%124 / 495
2×23.474.76
top 19.8%238 / 919
Skewb8.1910.55
top 42.7%164 / 324

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

Hungarian Open 2017: 16.77Pécs Open 2017: 18.92Budapest Open 2018: 14.44Hungarian Open 2018: 12.72Budapest Open 2019: 8.858.8518.9213 Oct 201730 Mar 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.85 away.
  • A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.79 away.

Targets move as he improves.