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Codrin Zaharia

Clock · top 3.1% of 32,048 all-time · competing since February 2025 · 2025CODR01

Codrin Zaharia has been competing for a year. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 4.39, set at Romanian Nationals 2026, puts him in the top 3.1% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7th in Romania. Until June 2015, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since February 2025, he has put 918 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.42 in February 2025 to 9.53, a 53% improvement. Codrin has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 3.1% of 32,048 all-time
4.39
signature single · Romanian Nationals 2026
918
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRomania
Clock4.395.51
top 3.1%7 / 187
2×21.713.68
top 3.1%51 / 1,214
Pyraminx3.295.14
top 4.6%39 / 825
3×39.5311.78
top 6.2%80 / 1,574
Skewb3.566.50
top 8.1%26 / 401
4×441.0945.70
top 13.4%59 / 578
3×3 one-handed18.7622.55
top 17.1%54 / 411
Megaminx1:14.231:26.32
top 18.2%28 / 243
5×51:30.321:44.84
top 27.6%51 / 225
Square-121.4923.56
top 31.3%45 / 158
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves—
early days — 2 solves27 / 98
6×63:02.023:27.22
top 42.0%39 / 128
7×75:33.755:50.64
top 60.7%49 / 95
3×3 blindfolded4:50.74—
top 78.1%56 / 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

Bucharest Cubing February 2025: 20.42Bucharest Cubing March 2025: 15.17Sofia Open 2025: 12.93Bucharest Cubing April 2025: 15.48Bucharest Cubing May 2025: 13.30Cluj Cubing Sports Festival 2025: 11.40Bucharest Cubing June 2025: 11.89Abruzzo al Cubo 2025: 11.78Bucharest Smart Summer Cubing 2025: 11.98Bucharest Cubing September 2025: 11.99Rubisian Autumn Open Iasi 2025: 12.08Bucharest Cubing October 2025: 12.14Ploiesti Cubing 2025: 10.38Bucharest Cubing December 2025: 9.78Bucharest Cubing March 2026: 12.15Bucharest Cubing April 2026: 10.06Rubisian Summer Cubing Iasi 2026: 10.28Bucharest Cubing July 2026: 9.53Romanian Nationals 2026: 10.289.5320.428 Feb 202521 Aug 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-4 Clock single — 741 people have one; it is 0.39 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.71 away.

Targets move as he improves.