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Serban Stelian

3×3 · top 0.03% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2019 · 2019STEL01

Serban Stelian has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 4.28, set at Bucharest Cubing February 2025, puts him in the top 0.03% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2nd in Romania. Until May 2018, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 52 competitions since April 2019, he has put 2,612 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.70 in April 2019 to 4.28, a 79% improvement. Serban has entered 52 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.03% of 284,439 all-time
4.28
signature single · Bucharest Cubing February 2025
2,612
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRomania
3×34.286.20
top 0.03%2 / 1,574
2×20.832.02
top 0.27%7 / 1,214
4×423.0131.60
top 0.32%5 / 578
3×3 one-handed9.3511.15
top 0.67%4 / 411
Pyraminx2.273.87
top 1.6%15 / 825
Megaminx44.1554.42
top 2.8%5 / 243
3×3 blindfolded27.2935.28
top 3.5%2 / 76
Skewb2.865.45
top 4.3%16 / 401
5×51:01.951:09.24
top 6.6%10 / 225
Clock6.058.18
top 7.4%15 / 187
3×3 Fewest Moves27 moves31.33
top 8.0%6 / 98
Square-114.0018.62
top 14.1%18 / 158
6×62:17.442:25.08
top 19.2%14 / 128
3×3 Multi-Blind4 of 4 cubes · 15:01—
top 40.6%8 / 26
7×74:34.424:59.06
top 42.6%34 / 95
4×4 blindfolded11:42.00—
top 65.5%9 / 13

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 Cubing Open 2019: 20.70ICHB Cube Race 2019: 16.45Bucharest Cubing Days 2021: 9.44Bucharest Back to Cube 2022: 8.69U.R.A. Summer Cubes 2022: 7.32Tarnovo Open 2022: 7.36U.R.A. Back to School 2022: 7.33Alba Iulia Cubing 2022: 7.40U.R.A. Funky Cubes 2022: 8.13U.R.A. Easter Cubing 2023: 7.62Timisoara Cube Days 2023: 6.74Bucharest Cubing A 2023: 6.98Bucharest Summer Cubes A 2023: 5.28Bucharest You Only Need One 2023: 6.20Big Blind Bucharest 2023: 7.10Brasov Funky Cubes 2023: 7.32Arad Cubing 2023: 6.56Bucharest Funky Cubes 2023: 5.36Balkan Open 2023: 6.31Romanian National Championship 2023: 6.99Bucharest Autumn Cubing B 2023: 6.85Bucharest Cubing March B 2024: 7.11Romanian 24h Championship 2024: 5.32Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 6.76Romanian Breaking Records 2024: 6.29Bucharest Cubing September 2024: 5.82Bucharest October Cubing 2024: 6.40Bucharest November Cubing 2024: 6.38Bucharest December Cubing 2024: 6.76Bucharest Cubing January 2025: 6.24Bucharest Cubing February 2025: 4.28Bucharest Cubing March 2025: 6.75Bucharest Cubing April 2025: 5.65Bucharest Cubing May 2025: 6.50Bucharest Smart Summer Cubing 2025: 5.61Romanian National Championship 2025: 5.34Bucharest Cubing September 2025: 6.75Bucharest Cubing October 2025: 5.85Ploiesti Cubing 2025: 5.95Bucharest Cubing December 2025: 4.69Bucharest Cubing March 2026: 6.19Bucharest Cubing April 2026: 5.66Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 6.01Romanian Nationals 2026: 5.514.2820.7020 Apr 201921 Aug 2026

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-4 3×3 single — 38 people have one; it is 0.28 away.
  • A sub-20 4×4 single — 42 people have one; it is 3.01 away.

Targets move as he improves.