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Dragos Butnariu

3×3 · top 16.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022BUTN02

Dragos Butnariu has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.60, set at Iasi Cubing 2023, puts him in the top 16.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 202nd in Romania. Across 6 competitions since October 2022, he has put 160 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 77% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.70 in October 2022 to 12.60, a 47% improvement. Dragos has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 16.0% of 284,439 all-time
12.60
signature single · Iasi Cubing 2023
160
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 77% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRomania
3×312.6014.15
top 16.0%202 / 1,574
Pyraminx5.868.54
top 18.9%147 / 825
2×23.415.11
top 19.1%220 / 1,214
4×457.571:09.06
top 33.8%139 / 578
3×3 one-handed29.7034.29
top 46.0%158 / 411
Skewb10.2117.42
top 56.2%207 / 401

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

ASSIST Cubing 2022: 23.70Bucharest Summer Cubes B 2023: 15.36Botosani Cubing 2023: 12.81Iasi Cubing 2023: 12.60ASSIST Cubing in Suceava 2023: 13.57Iasi Cubing Day 2024: 13.6112.6023.7022 Oct 20226 Apr 2024

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.60 away.
  • A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.86 away.

Targets move as he improves.