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Matei-Alexandru Ghencea

2×2 · top 3.0% of 186,767 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022GHEN01

Matei-Alexandru Ghencea has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.69, set at Bucharest Summer Cubes B 2023, puts him in the top 3.0% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 50th in Romania. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since May 2022, he has put 1,057 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.78 in May 2022 to 8.18, a 24% improvement. He has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 3.0% of 186,767 all-time
1.69
signature single · Bucharest Summer Cubes B 2023
1,057
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRomania
2×21.693.57
top 3.0%50 / 1,214
3×38.189.98
top 3.1%37 / 1,574
Clock5.226.03
top 5.0%11 / 187
3×3 Fewest Moves26 moves29.00
top 6.2%3 / 98
Pyraminx3.785.71
top 6.6%55 / 825
4×437.7644.55
top 9.5%41 / 578
5×51:09.691:22.34
top 11.4%20 / 225
3×3 one-handed16.8322.21
top 12.1%33 / 411
Skewb4.966.25
top 17.8%55 / 401
6×62:30.612:37.72
top 25.9%22 / 128
7×73:49.623:57.87
top 27.1%19 / 95
Megaminx1:44.912:09.21
top 37.5%66 / 243

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: 10.78Cubing at Sopro 2022: 9.26Albanian Open 2022: 10.50U.R.A. Summer Cubes 2022: 8.24Tarnovo Open 2022: 9.19U.R.A. Back to School 2022: 10.16Prague Open 2022: 8.47U.R.A. Funky Cubes 2022: 9.13İstanbul Spring 2023: 9.95U.R.A. Easter Cubing 2023: 9.32Timisoara Cube Days 2023: 8.61Bucharest Summer Cubes B 2023: 8.18Bucharest You Only Need One 2023: 8.63Big Blind Bucharest 2023: 9.52Burgas Open 2023: 10.02Brasov Funky Cubes 2023: 10.02Otantik Weekend 2023: 8.90Romanian National Championship 2023: 8.33Bucharest Winter Cubing B 2023: 9.438.1810.7814 May 202216 Dec 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.69 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.18 away.

Targets move as he improves.