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Stefan Negrea

Clock · top 0.3% of 32,048 all-time · competing since November 2023 · 2023NEGR09

Stefan Negrea has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 2.57, set at Bucharest Cubing May 2025, puts him in the top 0.3% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in Romania. Until January 2024, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since November 2023, he has put 859 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 41.13 in November 2023 to 9.74, a 76% improvement. Stefan has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 0.3% of 32,048 all-time
2.57
signature single · Bucharest Cubing May 2025
859
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRomania
Clock2.573.51
top 0.3%1 / 187
2×20.923.41
top 0.41%10 / 1,214
Pyraminx1.843.45
top 0.89%9 / 825
Skewb3.125.48
top 5.6%22 / 401
3×39.7411.95
top 6.7%92 / 1,574
3×3 one-handed19.6421.42
top 19.5%57 / 411
Square-117.2020.84
top 21.4%25 / 158
Megaminx1:24.501:28.52
top 24.6%42 / 243
4×451.5456.96
top 26.6%110 / 578
5×51:47.602:03.17
top 40.9%80 / 225
6×63:59.254:26.78
top 65.1%69 / 128

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 Autumn Cubing B 2023: 41.13Bucharest Cubing March B 2024: 25.09Bucharest Cubing May B 2024: 18.73Bucharest Cubing June 2024: 18.05Romanian Breaking Records 2024: 15.44Bucharest Cubing February 2025: 11.30Bucharest Cubing March 2025: 13.99Bucharest Cubing April 2025: 12.67Bucharest Cubing May 2025: 11.63Bucharest Cubing June 2025: 10.61Bucharest Smart Summer Cubing 2025: 12.25Romanian National Championship 2025: 11.95Rubisian Speedcubing Iasi 2025: 10.76Rubisian Autumn Open Iasi 2025: 10.60Ploiesti Cubing 2025: 9.74Bucharest Cubing April 2026: 9.84Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 10.02Romanian Nationals 2026: 10.059.7441.1325 Nov 202321 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-2 Clock single — 17 people have one; it is 0.57 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.84 away.

Targets move as he improves.