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Matei Poleuca

3×3 · top 51.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2019 · 2019POLE01

Matei Poleuca has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 24.44, set at Iasi Cubing Day 2024, puts him in the top 51.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 691st in Romania. Across 3 competitions since March 2019, he has put 47 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.95 in March 2019 to 24.44, a 21% improvement. Matei has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 51.4% of 284,439 all-time
24.44
signature single · Iasi Cubing Day 2024
47
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRomania
3×324.4427.35
top 51.4%691 / 1,574
Pyraminx11.8817.91
top 66.4%537 / 825
2×29.7711.58
top 77.0%833 / 1,214
4×42:20.422:44.34
top 89.3%452 / 578

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

Iasi Cubing Open 2019: 30.95Iasi Back To Cubing 2019: 24.74Iasi Cubing Day 2024: 24.4424.4430.9530 Mar 20196 Apr 2024

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-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 4.44 away.
  • A sub-10 Pyraminx single — 68,530 people have one; it is 1.88 away.

Targets move as he improves.