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Mateescu Silvia

2×2 · top 4.7% of 186,767 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022SILV12

Mateescu Silvia has been competing for 4 years. Her best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.99, set at Romanian 24h Championship 2024, puts her in the top 4.7% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 65th in Romania. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since May 2022, she has put 742 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 13.47 in May 2022 to 9.12, a 32% improvement. Mateescu has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 4.7% of 186,767 all-time
1.99
signature single · Romanian 24h Championship 2024
742
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRomania
2×21.994.80
top 4.7%65 / 1,214
3×39.1211.54
top 5.1%66 / 1,574
Megaminx1:09.781:17.36
top 15.5%26 / 243
Clock8.249.75
top 16.4%29 / 187
4×447.7254.32
top 21.8%85 / 578
Square-117.5725.99
top 22.3%28 / 158
Pyraminx6.617.57
top 24.7%197 / 825
Skewb6.1010.85
top 26.5%87 / 401
5×51:39.971:49.74
top 35.4%64 / 225
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves48.67
early days — 3 solves38 / 98
3×3 one-handed33.5339.02
top 54.5%187 / 411
6×66:44.31—
early days — 1 solve103 / 128

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

Bucharest Back to Cube 2022: 13.47U.R.A. Summer Cubes 2022: 11.65U.R.A. Back to School 2022: 11.70U.R.A. Funky Cubes 2022: 11.32U.R.A. Easter Cubing 2023: 12.07Timisoara Cube Days 2023: 12.26Bucharest You Only Need One 2023: 9.68Big Blind Bucharest 2023: 10.67Botosani Cubing 2023: 11.45Bucharest Funky Cubes 2023: 10.70Romanian National Championship 2023: 11.63Bucharest Autumn Cubing A 2023: 10.32Bucharest Cubing February B 2024: 9.12Romanian 24h Championship 2024: 11.49Romanian Breaking Records 2024: 11.57Bucharest November Cubing 2024: 10.28Bucharest December Cubing 2024: 9.16Cluj Cubing Sports Festival 2025: 10.75Bucharest Smart Summer Cubing 2025: 12.32Romanian Nationals 2026: 12.799.1213.4714 May 202221 Aug 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.99 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.12 away.

Targets move as she improves.