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Ştefan Baeş

3×3 · top 9.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2014 · 2014BAES01

Ştefan Baeş has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.63, set at Moldavian Nationals 2015, puts him in the top 9.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8th in Moldova. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since June 2014, he has put 115 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 92% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.31 in June 2014 to 10.63, a 26% improvement. He has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.4% of 284,439 all-time
10.63
signature single · Moldavian Nationals 2015
115
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 92% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMoldova
3×310.6313.19
top 9.4%8 / 143
2×24.537.41
top 33.3%25 / 103
3×3 one-handed34.1938.65
top 55.8%15 / 39
4×41:28.08
early days — 3 solves25 / 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

Bucharest Rubik Summer 2014: 14.31Braila Rubik's Day 2014: 13.28Brasov Rubik's Open 2015: 12.16Moldavian Nationals 2015: 10.63Moldavian Nationals - Winter 2016: 12.7610.6314.3115 Jun 201423 Jan 2016

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.63 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.53 away.

Targets move as he improves.