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Ilie-Laurenţiu Soare

3×3 · top 6.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2017 · 2017SOAR01

Ilie-Laurenţiu Soare has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.77, set at Baia Mare North Open 2018, puts him in the top 6.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 93rd in Romania. Until October 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 39 competitions since April 2017, he has put 1,451 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.07 in April 2017 to 9.77, a 63% improvement. He has entered 39 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.8% of 284,439 all-time
9.77
signature single · Baia Mare North Open 2018
1,451
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRomania
3×39.7711.82
top 6.8%93 / 1,574
4×439.9352.29
top 12.1%54 / 578
2×23.265.77
top 17.3%193 / 1,214
3×3 one-handed22.5831.82
top 27.6%80 / 411
Pyraminx7.0014.47
top 27.9%223 / 825
Skewb7.9516.75
top 40.9%144 / 401
5×51:47.661:57.62
top 41.0%81 / 225
Megaminx2:17.673:03.09
top 55.2%98 / 243
3×3 Fewest Moves42 moves46.00
top 55.5%50 / 98
6×63:53.314:17.19
top 63.2%63 / 128
Clock24.8135.11
top 76.4%131 / 187
7×76:52.326:53.63
top 78.8%63 / 95
Square-11:58.46—
early days — 1 solve153 / 158

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

U.R.A. Easter Open 2017: 26.07Constanța Cube Days 2017: 13.98Botosani Rubik Open 2017: 14.38U.R.A. Back to School 2017: 14.11Craiova Rubik Open 2017: 11.73Slobozia Winter Open 2018: 13.35Oradea Cubing Open 2018: 12.82Bulgarian Open 2018: 13.53Bacau Easter Open 2018: 11.52U.R.A. Spring of Colors 2018: 11.70Sofia Open 2018: 10.90Romanian Cubing Open 2018: 11.76Constanta Cube Days 2018: 12.08Baia Mare North Open 2018: 9.77Sofia Autumn 2018: 11.34Botosani Cube Day 2018: 10.50Sebes Autumn 2018: 11.16Macedonia Open 2018: 11.09Kosovo Open 2018: 10.44Romanian National Day 2018: 12.38U.R.A. Spring of Colors 2019: 12.18Sofia Spring 2019: 10.39Iasi Cubing Open 2019: 10.23Constanta Summer Open 2019: 11.38ICHB Cube Race 2019: 12.24Constanta Cube Days 2019: 11.95Baia Mare North Open 2019: 10.24Iasi Back To Cubing 2019: 10.31ICHB Back To School 2019: 10.04Lovech Winter 2019: 10.59U.R.A. Back to School 2022: 12.42U.R.A. Easter Cubing 2023: 13.339.7726.078 Apr 201722 Apr 2023

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.77 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 9.93 away.

Targets move as he improves.