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Matei Alexandru Stroescu

3×3 · top 0.46% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2017 · 2017STRO02

Matei Alexandru Stroescu has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.95, set at U.R.A. Spring of Colors 2019, puts him in the top 0.46% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 10th in Romania. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since February 2017, he has put 855 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 91% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.81 in February 2017 to 5.95, a 76% improvement. Matei has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.46% of 284,439 all-time
5.95
signature single · U.R.A. Spring of Colors 2019
855
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRomania
3×35.958.82
top 0.46%10 / 1,574
Pyraminx3.748.26
top 6.4%53 / 825
2×22.564.77
top 9.5%120 / 1,214
3×3 one-handed17.6924.47
top 14.3%45 / 411
Skewb4.7511.31
top 16.3%51 / 401
4×444.0045.23
top 17.0%70 / 578
5×51:28.971:41.63
top 26.4%48 / 225
Clock12.7914.83
top 38.7%66 / 187
Megaminx2:34.34
top 63.3%114 / 243
6×64:58.985:01.20
top 81.4%80 / 128
7×79:01.82
early days — 1 solve79 / 95

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

Rubi-Xtreme Piatra Neamt 2017: 24.81Slobozia Spring Open 2017: 16.21U.R.A. Easter Open 2017: 14.69Romanian Rubik Open 2017: 12.59Constanța Cube Days 2017: 9.54Botosani Rubik Open 2017: 9.77U.R.A. Back to School 2017: 8.05Craiova Rubik Open 2017: 10.40Slobozia Winter Open 2018: 9.12Bacau Easter Open 2018: 9.11U.R.A. Spring of Colors 2018: 10.10Constanta Cube Days 2018: 9.81Botosani Cube Day 2018: 9.45U.R.A. Spring of Colors 2019: 5.95Iasi Cubing Open 2019: 9.91ICHB Cube Race 2019: 9.33Bacau Cubing Fall 2019: 9.83U.R.A. Summer Cubes 2022: 8.17U.R.A. Back to School 2022: 7.62ASSIST Cubing 2022: 7.85Bucharest Cubing March 2025: 8.155.9524.8111 Feb 201715 Mar 2025

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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.95 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.74 away.

Targets move as he improves.