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Matei Florea

2×2 · top 0.55% of 186,767 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022FLOR13

Matei Florea has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.00, set at Bucharest Cubing April 2025, puts him in the top 0.55% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 14th in Romania. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since October 2022, he has put 1,346 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 80% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.52 in October 2022 to 7.45, a 76% improvement. Matei has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.55% of 186,767 all-time
1.00
signature single · Bucharest Cubing April 2025
1,346
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 80% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRomania
2×21.001.62
top 0.55%14 / 1,214
Pyraminx1.824.11
top 0.86%8 / 825
3×37.4510.17
top 1.9%25 / 1,574
Square-17.2611.39
top 2.1%3 / 158
4×433.8440.34
top 5.7%19 / 578
Megaminx53.401:07.58
top 6.7%12 / 243
3×3 one-handed15.6217.47
top 9.4%26 / 411
Skewb3.986.06
top 10.8%32 / 401
5×51:10.071:16.17
top 11.6%21 / 225
Clock7.368.91
top 12.4%25 / 187
3×3 blindfolded1:42.303:04.52
top 27.4%18 / 76
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves—
early days — 3 solves21 / 98
6×62:42.042:43.75
top 31.9%32 / 128
7×74:03.734:12.50
top 32.2%23 / 95
4×4 blindfolded13:07.00—
early days — 1 solve12 / 13
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 3 cubes · 16:34—
early days — 1 solve24 / 26

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

U.R.A. Back to School 2022: 31.52U.R.A. Easter Cubing 2023: 15.34Bucharest Summer Cubes A 2023: 15.68Bucharest Funky Cubes 2023: 13.26Romanian National Championship 2023: 12.40Bucharest Cubing February A 2024: 10.82Bucharest Cubing July 2024: 9.65Romanian Breaking Records 2024: 10.99Bucharest October Cubing 2024: 9.70Bucharest Cubing January 2025: 9.48Bucharest Cubing February 2025: 9.40Bucharest Cubing March 2025: 10.25Bucharest Cubing April 2025: 9.75Bucharest Cubing May 2025: 9.24Bucharest Smart Summer Cubing 2025: 10.47Romanian National Championship 2025: 9.21Bucharest Cubing September 2025: 8.86Bucharest Cubing October 2025: 9.12Bucharest Cubing March 2026: 7.45Bucharest Cubing April 2026: 9.68Cluj Cubing Sports Festival 2026: 8.87Rubisian Summer Cubing Iasi 2026: 9.58Bucharest Cubing July 2026: 8.90Romanian Nationals 2026: 8.907.4531.521 Oct 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.82 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.45 away.

Targets move as he improves.