People · Romania
Mihai Savin
3×3 · top 1.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022SAVI04
Mihai Savin has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.71, set at Iasi Back to Cubing 2024, puts him in the top 1.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 15th in Romania. Until January 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 29 competitions since May 2022, he has put 981 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 84% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.80 in May 2022 to 6.71, a 43% improvement. Mihai has entered 29 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Romania | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 6.71 | 8.50 | top 1.0% | 15 / 1,574 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 11.66 | 17.87 | top 2.6% | 11 / 411 | |
| 2×2 | 2.00 | 3.81 | top 4.7% | 69 / 1,214 | |
| 4×4 | 37.88 | 45.98 | top 9.7% | 42 / 578 | |
| 5×5 | 1:28.42 | 1:41.72 | top 26.0% | 45 / 225 | |
| Megaminx | 1:27.78 | 1:39.99 | top 26.7% | 46 / 243 | |
| Pyraminx | 7.20 | 10.09 | top 29.5% | 239 / 825 | |
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 35 moves | 39.33 | top 30.0% | 21 / 98 | |
| Square-1 | 21.20 | 34.34 | top 30.7% | 42 / 158 | |
| 6×6 | 3:24.59 | 3:47.50 | top 52.6% | 50 / 128 | |
| Skewb | 11.17 | 15.46 | top 61.7% | 228 / 401 | |
| Clock | 20.43 | 22.95 | top 65.9% | 112 / 187 | |
| 7×7 | 6:08.55 | 6:44.59 | top 69.8% | 58 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 21 Aug 2025Three personal bests in one day at Romanian National Championship 2025.
- 30 Aug 2024Three personal bests in one day at Romanian Breaking Records 2024.
- 30 Mar 2024Seven personal bests in one day at Bucharest Big Cubes March 2024.
- 22 Apr 2023Five personal bests in one day at U.R.A. Easter Cubing 2023.
- 22 Oct 2022First sub-10 3×3: 9.68 at ASSIST Cubing 2022.
- 14 May 2022First competition: Bucharest Back to Cube 2022. A 11.80 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Marginea Cubing 2026 · 1 Aug 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Rubisian Spring Cubing Iasi 2026 · 2 May 2026
- Rubisian Ice Break Iasi 2025 · 29 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Ploiesti Cubing 2025 · 22 Nov 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Rubisian Autumn Open Iasi 2025 · 18 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Marginea Cubing 2025 · 4 Oct 2025
- FMC Europe 2025 · 20 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Rubisian Speedcubing Iasi 2025 · 30 Aug 2025
- Romanian National Championship 2025 · 21 Aug 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Europe FMC Friends - Winter 2025 · 1 Feb 2025
- FMC Romania January 2025 · 18 Jan 2025
- Books and Cubes at Liszt 2024 · 23 Nov 2024 — 1 personal best set
- FMC Bulgaria x Romania 2024 · 9 Nov 2024
- Iasi Back to Cubing 2024 · 12 Oct 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Romanian Breaking Records 2024 · 30 Aug 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- FMC Romania 2nd 2024 · 24 Aug 2024
- FMC 2024 · 1 Jun 2024
- Iasi Cubing Day 2024 · 6 Apr 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Bucharest Big Cubes March 2024 · 30 Mar 2024 — 7 personal bests set
- FMC Romania 2024 · 13 Jan 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Bucharest Autumn Cubing B 2023 · 25 Nov 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Romanian National Championship 2023 · 2 Nov 2023 — 1 personal best set
- ASSIST Cubing in Suceava 2023 · 28 Oct 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Iasi Cubing 2023 · 14 Oct 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Botosani Cubing 2023 · 5 Aug 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- U.R.A. Easter Cubing 2023 · 22 Apr 2023 — 5 personal bests set
- ASSIST Cubing 2022 · 22 Oct 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- U.R.A. Back to School 2022 · 1 Oct 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Bucharest Back to Cube 2022 · 14 May 2022
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.
- Alexandru Ignat — met in 145 rounds, finished ahead 96 times
- Radu Mihai Stan — met in 140 rounds, finished ahead 48 times
- Mihai Căpăţinescu — met in 112 rounds, finished ahead 64 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.71 away.
- A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 1.66 away.
Targets move as he improves.