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Iuliana Steluța Negură

3×3 · top 49.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2011 · 2011NEGU01

Iuliana Steluța Negură has been competing for 15 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 23.58, set at Bucharest Open 2012, puts her in the top 49.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 661st in Romania. Across 18 competitions since May 2011, she has put 223 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 92% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 33.94 in May 2011 to 23.58, a 31% improvement. Iuliana has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 49.3% of 284,439 all-time
23.58
signature single · Bucharest Open 2012
223
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 92% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRomania
3×323.5831.14
top 49.3%661 / 1,574
2×28.3412.83
top 69.9%737 / 1,214
Square-13:52.14
early days — 3 solves158 / 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

Romanian Open 2011: 33.94Bucharest Open 2012: 23.58Bacau Open 2012: 29.91Romanian Nationals 2012: 29.19Sibiu Rubik Open 2013: 29.21Romanian Open 2013: 25.06Constanta Rubik Open 2013: 30.63Valcea Rubik Open 2013: 27.83Romanian Rubik Open 2014: 28.47Bucharest Rubik Summer 2014: 27.96Brasov Rubik's Open 2015: 38.28Suceava Rubik Open 2015: 30.15U.R.A. Rubik Open 2016: 38.02Constanta Rubik Open 2016: 36.56Botosani Rubik Open 2016: 31.71U.R.A. Back to School 2016: 31.32Romanian Rubik Open 2017: 38.39Constanța Cube Days 2017: 35.8523.5838.3921 May 201119 Aug 2017

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 3.58 away.
  • A sub-8 2×2 single — 126,624 people have one; it is 0.34 away.

Targets move as she improves.