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Pavel Caraus

3×3 · top 47.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2016 · 2016CARA01

Pavel Caraus has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 22.71, set at Chișinău Winter 2017, puts him in the top 47.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 68th in Moldova. Across 3 competitions since January 2016, he has put 70 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 36.82 in January 2016 to 22.71, a 38% improvement. Pavel has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 47.2% of 284,439 all-time
22.71
signature single · Chișinău Winter 2017
70
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMoldova
3×322.7127.30
top 47.2%68 / 143
2×27.228.24
top 62.2%56 / 103
3×3 one-handed55.981:18.97
top 81.4%25 / 39
4×42:02.552:27.53
top 82.8%37 / 52

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

Moldavian Nationals - Winter 2016: 36.82Moldavian Nationals Summer 2016: 26.22Chișinău Winter 2017: 22.7122.7136.8223 Jan 20168 Jan 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 2.71 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 1.22 away.

Targets move as he improves.