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Bence Barát vs Evan Liu

Two careers, 71 shared rounds, one running count. Everything below comes from the official results the two of them posted in the same rounds of the same competitions.

Bence Barát (Hungary) and Evan Liu (United States) have met in 71 rounds across 3 competitions since 2013. Counting every round where both finished with a result, Bence Barát leads Evan Liu: 40 finishes in front to 29 and 2 ties.

On personal bests the split is just as plain: across 17 shared events, Evan Liu holds the faster single in 15, Bence Barát in 2.

Personal bests, side by side

faster single in bold
EventBence Barát singleaverageEvan Liu singleaverage
3×36.498.914.876.98
2×20.762.040.641.79
4×427.7932.4522.9727.41
5×550.8354.3245.9151.87
6×61:33.561:40.281:25.751:28.55
7×72:17.702:22.722:16.812:25.31
3×3 blindfolded34.8243.3835.5350.30
3×3 Fewest Moves19 moves22.0023 moves23.67
3×3 one-handed9.4316.208.8712.33
Clock8.079.102.694.10
Megaminx54.3758.3346.1053.45
Pyraminx2.274.921.473.02
Skewb2.864.711.662.71
Square-111.0614.257.8110.47
4×4 blindfolded6:13.267:13.332:50.643:38.25
5×5 blindfolded19:42.008:04.099:02.82
3×3 Multi-Blind8 of 8 cubes · 43:5214 of 15 cubes · 49:09

Year by year

every meeting, 71 rounds in all
20132017busiest year: 25 meetings2013: 252016: 242017: 22

Recent meetings

newest first · averages where the round ranked on one, singles otherwise
YearCompetitionEventRoundBence BarátEvan Liuahead
2017World Rubik's Cube Championship 20172×2First round3.094.40Bence Barát
2017World Rubik's Cube Championship 20173×3Second round10.6510.97Bence Barát
2017World Rubik's Cube Championship 20173×3First round11.6110.84Evan Liu
2017World Rubik's Cube Championship 20173×3 blindfoldedSecond round1:21.92Bence Barát
2017World Rubik's Cube Championship 20173×3 blindfoldedFirst round42.3150.01Bence Barát
2017World Rubik's Cube Championship 20173×3 Fewest MovesFinal28.6732.00Bence Barát
2017World Rubik's Cube Championship 20173×3 one-handedFirst round20.5717.21Evan Liu
2017World Rubik's Cube Championship 20174×4Second round44.0439.37Evan Liu
2017World Rubik's Cube Championship 20174×4First round39.6938.13Evan Liu
2017World Rubik's Cube Championship 20175×5First round1:10.181:09.80Evan Liu
2017World Rubik's Cube Championship 20175×5Second round1:10.021:09.47Evan Liu
2017World Rubik's Cube Championship 20176×6First round2:02.811:57.05Evan Liu
2017World Rubik's Cube Championship 20176×6Final2:03.112:01.44Evan Liu
2017World Rubik's Cube Championship 20177×7First round3:00.103:07.86Bence Barát

Full careers: Bence Barát · Evan Liu. A meeting is a round of one event at one competition where both finished with a counted result. Who finished ahead follows official placing in the round: rounds played to an average are won on the average, best-of rounds on the single.