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Bence Kovács

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 8.0% of 12,294 all-time · competing since July 2014 · 2014KOVA07

Bence Kovács has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 27 moves, set at Bratislava Open 2015, puts him in the top 8.0% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 12th in Hungary. Across 26 competitions since July 2014, he has put 1,211 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 86% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.85 in July 2014 to 10.54, a 66% improvement. Bence has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 8.0% of 12,294 all-time
27 moves
signature single · Bratislava Open 2015
1,211
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 86% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingHungary
3×3 Fewest Moves27 moves33.67
top 8.0%12 / 117
3×310.5413.61
top 9.1%149 / 1,226
Square-111.8616.84
top 9.6%14 / 167
Pyraminx4.786.68
top 11.9%84 / 495
2×22.964.33
top 13.8%179 / 919
Skewb4.587.59
top 15.1%66 / 324
4×446.4952.97
top 20.2%111 / 509
Megaminx1:19.381:33.97
top 21.3%41 / 190
3×3 one-handed23.4127.09
top 29.9%153 / 445
5×51:36.261:47.21
top 32.4%85 / 315
7×74:34.164:46.11
top 42.5%38 / 116
6×63:19.023:38.63
top 50.1%57 / 130
Clock15.85
top 51.3%82 / 185
3×3 blindfolded4:16.15
top 71.6%76 / 102

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

Croatian Open 2014: 30.85Slovakian Open 2014: 26.48Hungarian Open 2014: 21.83Bratislava Open 2014: 21.21B.O.N.D. Open 2015: 16.95Osijek Open 2015: 19.21Slovenian Open 2015: 16.56Hungarian Nationals 2015: 16.39Bratislava No-Cutoff Open 2015: 14.96Lent Open 2015: 12.42Croatian Open 2015: 16.85Hungarian Open 2015: 16.09Bratislava Open 2015: 15.79Slovenian Open 2016: 14.36Hungarian Nationals 2016: 11.22European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 13.97Croatian Open 2016: 12.22Hungarian Open 2016: 11.66Eger Open 2017: 12.61Hungarian Open 2017: 11.74Budapest Open 2018: 11.99Hungarian Open 2018: 10.5410.5430.8519 Jul 201428 Sep 2018

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 0.54 away.
  • A sub-10 Square-1 single — 1,533 people have one; it is 1.86 away.

Targets move as he improves.