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Raluca Ioana Grigoraș

3×3 · top 3.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2016 · 2016GRIG01

Raluca Ioana Grigoraș has been competing for 10 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.38, set at Romanian Cubing Open 2019, puts her in the top 3.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 44th in Romania. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since March 2016, she has put 615 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 26.36 in March 2016 to 8.38, a 68% improvement. Raluca has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.5% of 284,439 all-time
8.38
signature single · Romanian Cubing Open 2019
615
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRomania
3×38.3812.21
top 3.5%44 / 1,574
Pyraminx3.998.09
top 7.6%61 / 825
3×3 blindfolded44.021:02.59
top 8.0%4 / 76
2×22.664.71
top 10.5%127 / 1,214
4×439.1647.50
top 11.1%50 / 578
3×3 one-handed17.9121.17
top 14.8%48 / 411
Skewb5.007.33
top 18.1%57 / 401
Megaminx1:28.301:37.58
top 27.1%47 / 243
Square-120.8937.43
top 30.0%39 / 158
5×51:41.891:54.38
top 36.8%69 / 225
4×4 blindfolded8:29.24—
early days — 2 solves4 / 13
5×5 blindfolded18:56.00—
top 56.1%4 / 8
6×63:58.144:39.00
top 64.8%66 / 128
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 8 cubes · 44:40—
top 78.9%23 / 26
Clock27.0530.36
top 80.3%141 / 187

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

Romanian Rubik Open 2016: 26.36Romanian Rubik Open 2017: 17.27Oradea Cubing Open 2018: 12.10Romanian Cubing Open 2018: 12.29Baia Mare North Open 2018: 9.95Botosani Cube Day 2018: 11.61Sebes Autumn 2018: 10.66Transilvania Cubing Open 2019: 11.37Romanian Cubing Open 2019: 8.38Sebes Autumn 2019: 11.99Bucharest Back to Cube 2022: 10.908.3826.3619 Mar 201614 May 2022

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.38 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.99 away.

Targets move as she improves.