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Tatiana Costea

3×3 · top 92.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022COST08

Tatiana Costea has been competing for 4 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 1:02.15, set at Romanian National Championship 2023, puts her in the top 92.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,460th in Romania. Across 6 competitions since May 2022, she has put 49 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 19% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 1:09.18 in May 2022 to 1:02.15, a 10% improvement. Tatiana has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 92.4% of 284,439 all-time
1:02.15
signature single · Romanian National Championship 2023
49
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRomania
3×31:02.151:18.59
top 92.4%1,460 / 1,574
2×220.1535.20
top 95.6%1,150 / 1,214
Clock58.59
early days — 1 solve186 / 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

Dutch Masters 2022: 1:09.18Ermelo Cubing A 2023: 1:08.57Bucharest You Only Need One 2023: 1:11.21Brasov Funky Cubes 2023: 1:09.32Romanian National Championship 2023: 1:02.15Dutch Winter South 2024: 1:04.501:02.151:11.2121 May 202213 Jan 2024

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-1:00 3×3 single — 260,367 people have one; it is 2.15 away.
  • A sub-20 2×2 single — 178,436 people have one; it is 0.15 away.

Targets move as she improves.