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Nicoleta Sava

3×3 · top 17.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2015 · 2015SAVA01

Nicoleta Sava has been competing for 11 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.06, set at U.R.A. Easter Open 2017, puts her in the top 17.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 226th in Romania. Across 9 competitions since September 2015, she has put 244 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 26.44 in September 2015 to 13.06, a 51% improvement. Nicoleta has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 17.6% of 284,439 all-time
13.06
signature single · U.R.A. Easter Open 2017
244
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 79% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRomania
3×313.0615.17
top 17.6%226 / 1,574
2×24.666.35
top 35.0%367 / 1,214
4×41:01.901:15.71
top 38.5%160 / 578
Pyraminx9.1014.84
top 45.7%351 / 825
3×3 one-handed37.3242.79
top 61.3%213 / 411
Megaminx2:39.522:52.50
top 65.8%124 / 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

Suceava Rubik Open 2015: 26.44U.R.A. Rubik Open 2016: 20.31U.R.A. Spring 2016: 16.61Moldavian Nationals Summer 2016: 14.47Botosani Rubik Open 2016: 13.66U.R.A. Back to School 2016: 14.17Chișinău Winter 2017: 13.22U.R.A. Easter Open 2017: 13.06U.R.A. Back to School 2017: 13.4413.0626.4412 Sep 201528 Oct 2017

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.06 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.66 away.

Targets move as she improves.