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Balázs Pápai

3×3 · top 26.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2014 · 2014PAPA01

Balázs Pápai has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 15.72, set at Budapest Open 2019, puts him in the top 26.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 402nd in Hungary. Across 7 competitions since October 2014, he has put 92 official solves on the record across two 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 20.00 in October 2014 to 15.72, a 21% improvement. He has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 26.9% of 284,439 all-time
15.72
signature single · Budapest Open 2019
92
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 standingHungary
3×315.7220.71
top 26.9%402 / 1,226
2×25.897.68
top 49.7%514 / 919

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 2014: 20.00Hungarian Nationals 2017: 18.87Hungarian Open 2017: 17.13Budapest Open 2018: 17.80Hungarian Open 2018: 17.70Budapest Open 2019: 15.72Budapest Open 2020: 17.9815.7220.0017 Oct 201422 Feb 2020

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 0.72 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.89 away.

Targets move as he improves.