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Bence Balog

2×2 · top 43.9% of 186,767 all-time · competing since April 2025 · 2025BALO01

Bence Balog has been competing for a year. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 5.37, set at Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2026, puts him in the top 43.9% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 17,689th in the United States. Across 4 competitions since April 2025, he has put 61 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 38.16 in April 2025 to 24.34, a 36% improvement. Bence has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 43.9% of 186,767 all-time
5.37
signature single · Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2026
61
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×25.377.37
top 43.9%17,689 / 40,951
3×324.3429.28
top 51.1%29,869 / 59,724
Pyraminx13.2317.82
top 74.1%21,991 / 28,708
4×42:15.032:20.31
top 87.6%16,603 / 19,072

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

UCLA Spring 2025: 38.16Let's Cube Long Beach 2025: 28.41West Coast Cubing Tour: Los Angeles 2025: 30.32Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2026: 24.3424.3438.1620 Apr 202519 Apr 2026

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-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.37 away.
  • A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 4.34 away.

Targets move as he improves.