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Erik Bitvai

2×2 · top 4.4% of 186,767 all-time · competing since October 2015 · 2015BITV01

Erik Bitvai has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.94, set at Swedish Championship 2018, puts him in the top 4.4% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 169th in Sweden. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since October 2015, he has put 258 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 93% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.86 in December 2015 to 10.85, a 65% improvement. Erik has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 4.4% of 186,767 all-time
1.94
signature single · Swedish Championship 2018
258
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 93% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSweden
2×21.944.07
top 4.4%169 / 2,325
3×310.8513.42
top 10.0%266 / 2,925
Pyraminx5.017.60
top 13.2%301 / 1,730
3×3 Multi-Blind12 of 14 cubes · 55:44
early days — 2 solves17 / 89
Square-118.7427.49
top 25.1%111 / 427
3×3 blindfolded1:39.83
top 26.5%53 / 159
3×3 one-handed34.48
top 56.3%429 / 868
Skewb10.8313.68
top 59.9%709 / 1,173
4×4 blindfolded26:52.00
early days — 1 solve50 / 52

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

Swedish Championship 2015: 30.86Gothenburg Cube Open 2016: 26.16ÅF Swedish Cube Open 2016: 25.21Lucia Open 2016: 21.95Twist and Shout Summer 2017: 16.23SSL 3 Kungsbacka 2017: 14.80SSL Final Borås 2017: 15.83Swedish Championship 2018: 11.35Sala Summer Blind 2018: 13.82Nordic Championship 2018: 10.8510.8530.865 Dec 20152 Nov 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.94 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.85 away.

Targets move as he improves.