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Istvan Peter Lorincz

2×2 · top 13.7% of 186,767 all-time · competing since May 2011 · 2011LORI01

Istvan Peter Lorincz has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.95, set at Cluj Cubing Sports Festival 2025, puts him in the top 13.7% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 156th in Romania. Across 10 competitions since May 2011, he has put 219 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 58% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.78 in May 2011 to 14.76, a 54% improvement. Istvan has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 13.7% of 186,767 all-time
2.95
signature single · Cluj Cubing Sports Festival 2025
219
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRomania
2×22.957.31
top 13.7%156 / 1,214
3×314.7619.26
top 23.6%299 / 1,574
3×3 one-handed40.2746.93
top 65.6%233 / 411
4×41:34.09
top 66.6%315 / 578
5×52:56.71
top 77.0%145 / 225
Pyraminx14.6720.14
top 80.6%668 / 825
Megaminx4:13.41
top 91.9%193 / 243
3×3 Fewest Moves61 moves
early days — 1 solve92 / 98

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

Romanian Open 2011: 31.78Romanian Open 2012: 17.46Romanian Open 2013: 17.56Romanian Rubik Open 2014: 15.88Brasov Rubik's Open 2015: 16.53Hungarian Open 2015: 17.20Romanian Rubik Open 2016: 17.59Romanian Rubik Open 2017: 14.76Cluj Cubing Sports Festival 2025: 16.39Cluj Cubing Sports Festival 2026: 17.0414.7631.7821 May 201113 Jun 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.

  • Vasile Dan — met in 43 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
  • Radu Făciu — met in 40 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
  • Bence Barát — met in 37 rounds, never finished ahead

Next targets

  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.95 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.76 away.

Targets move as he improves.