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Aleksey Bakulin

3×3 · top 8.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2017 · 2017BAKU01

Aleksey Bakulin has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.29, set at Cubing Ekat Open 2021, puts him in the top 8.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 321st in Russia. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 24 competitions since November 2017, he has put 562 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.94 in November 2017 to 10.29, a 35% improvement. Aleksey has entered 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.3% of 284,439 all-time
10.29
signature single · Cubing Ekat Open 2021
562
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×310.2913.71
top 8.3%321 / 6,475
Pyraminx6.3010.79
top 22.2%745 / 3,777
2×24.717.04
top 35.6%1,429 / 4,782
Skewb7.5514.69
top 37.8%643 / 2,264
4×41:02.671:08.83
top 39.3%665 / 2,080
5×52:17.732:34.45
top 59.8%512 / 941
Clock33.3440.24
top 88.2%581 / 714
6×65:52.13—
top 89.6%297 / 343

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

Ural Autumn 2017: 15.94Miass Open 2018: 15.39Ekat Summer 2018: 15.46Ural Open 2018: 14.08Ural Autumn 2018: 14.69Ural Winter 2019: 12.75EkatCube Spring 2019: 14.11Ural Spring 2019: 14.78Magnit Open 2019: 13.15Ural Open 2019: 13.17Eka Cube Days 2019: 14.41Ural Autumn 2019: 13.11CCC Qualification Tyumen 2019: 12.58Ural Light 2019: 13.54Eka Cube Winter 2020: 13.79Ural Winter 2020: 12.68Ural Autumn 2020: 12.40Ural Spring 2021: 14.17Tyumen Happy Sunday 2021: 14.97Kurochkino Cubers 2021: 12.10Cubing Ekat Open 2021: 10.29Ural Autumn 2021: 13.15Ural Winter 2022: 12.3110.2915.9418 Nov 201713 Feb 2022

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 0.29 away.
  • A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 0.30 away.

Targets move as he improves.