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Dávid Balog

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 1.5% of 12,294 all-time · competing since June 2009 · 2009BALO03

Dávid Balog has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 21 moves, set at Hungarian Open 2019, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3rd in Hungary. Across 39 competitions since June 2009, he has put 1,685 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.75 in June 2009 to 9.29, a 61% improvement. He has entered 39 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 1.5% of 12,294 all-time
21 moves
signature single · Hungarian Open 2019
1,685
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingHungary
3×3 Fewest Moves21 moves23.33
top 1.5%3 / 117
2×21.872.93
top 4.0%62 / 919
Pyraminx3.244.64
top 4.5%40 / 495
4×433.2338.26
top 5.1%28 / 509
3×39.2911.18
top 5.6%88 / 1,226
3×3 one-handed15.0720.23
top 8.2%43 / 445
Skewb3.647.22
top 8.6%46 / 324
5×51:06.561:15.70
top 9.4%27 / 315
Square-111.8116.51
top 9.5%12 / 167
7×73:27.793:48.64
top 19.0%21 / 116
Clock9.2510.97
top 21.2%36 / 185
6×62:23.472:26.42
top 22.3%26 / 130
Megaminx1:33.141:45.13
top 30.2%58 / 190

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

Mammut Open 2009: 23.75Hungarian Open 2009: 16.47Hungarian Open 2010: 13.77European Rubik's Cube Championship 2010: 15.80Hungarian Open 2011: 14.56Austrian Open 2012: 11.03Hungarian Open 2012: 12.97Hungarian Open 2013: 12.16Hungarian Open 2014: 10.02B.O.N.D. Open 2015: 11.33Osijek Open 2015: 10.77Hungarian Nationals 2015: 9.60Bratislava No-Cutoff Open 2015: 10.70Croatian Open 2015: 9.50Hungarian Open 2015: 9.98Hungarian Nationals 2016: 9.29Croatian Open 2016: 10.70Hungarian Open 2016: 10.17Bratislava Open 2016: 9.95Hungarian Open 2017: 10.56Pécs Open 2017: 10.00Budapest Open 2018: 11.15Hungarian Summer 2019: 10.189.2923.7517 Jun 200924 Aug 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.87 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.24 away.

Targets move as he improves.