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Iulian Steavu

4×4 · top 16.3% of 83,917 all-time · competing since November 2013 · 2013STEA01

Iulian Steavu has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 43.39, set at SPQR Open 2022, puts him in the top 16.3% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 67th in Romania. Across 15 competitions since November 2013, he has put 514 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 81% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.72 in March 2014 to 12.80, a 35% improvement. Iulian has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 16.3% of 83,917 all-time
43.39
signature single · SPQR Open 2022
514
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 81% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRomania
4×443.3955.39
top 16.3%67 / 578
3×312.8017.52
top 16.7%209 / 1,574
2×23.727.12
top 23.0%260 / 1,214
Pyraminx6.559.82
top 24.2%189 / 825
5×51:27.471:44.16
top 25.3%44 / 225
Skewb6.589.77
top 30.3%103 / 401
7×74:47.905:03.48
top 47.1%38 / 95
6×63:31.513:34.44
top 55.2%52 / 128
3×3 Fewest Moves47 moves
early days — 2 solves65 / 98
3×3 one-handed51.4858.19
top 78.1%283 / 411
Clock29.31
top 83.5%150 / 187

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

Small CubingItaly 2014: 19.72Italian Championship 2014: 22.34Eretum Open 2014: 17.05PoliMi Italian Open 2014: 16.88Eretum Open 2015: 23.08Small CubingItaly 2015: 16.55Monterotondo Open 2015: 17.16Italian Open 2015: 17.93Capodrise Open 2016: 15.03Rome Slam Open 2016: 12.80Rome Summer Open 2016: 19.44Road to IC - Monterotondo 2019: 17.22SPQR Open 2022: 15.1312.8023.089 Mar 20147 May 2022

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-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 3.39 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.80 away.

Targets move as he improves.