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Alexander Katyukov (Александр Катюков)

3×3 · top 7.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2015 · 2015KATY01

Alexander Katyukov (Александр Катюков) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.01, set at Kalmykia Open 2019, puts him in the top 7.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 286th in Russia. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 54 competitions since August 2015, he has put 1,190 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.10 in August 2015 to 10.01, a 38% improvement. Alexander has entered 54 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.5% of 284,439 all-time
10.01
signature single · Kalmykia Open 2019
1,190
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×310.0115.20
top 7.5%286 / 6,475
Clock6.747.99
top 10.0%36 / 714
Skewb4.155.51
top 11.9%173 / 2,264
Pyraminx5.318.95
top 15.1%479 / 3,777
2×23.386.32
top 18.7%705 / 4,782
3×3 blindfolded2:12.82—
top 37.5%87 / 310
3×3 one-handed27.4537.48
top 40.5%662 / 1,770
4×41:09.771:21.79
top 46.6%808 / 2,080
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 3 cubes · 19:48—
top 51.8%45 / 98
Megaminx2:14.392:53.35
top 53.4%380 / 998
3×3 Fewest Moves46 moves—
top 68.6%241 / 366
5×52:57.76—
early days — 2 solves685 / 941
6×67:47.85—
early days — 1 solve335 / 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

CCC End of Summer 2015: 16.10MPEI Open 2015: 22.00Moscow Christmas Open 2016: 15.49CCC Spring Open 2016: 16.85Full Steps in Brest 2016: 17.06CCC Summer Open 2016: 17.66Samara Open 2016: 15.38MPEI Open 2016: 17.13Cuberussia in SPB 2017: 17.80Cuberussia in MSK 2017: 12.82White City Cubing 2017: 15.16To The Moon 2017: 17.93Ramenskoe Open 2017: 17.76150th Cube Meeting in Brest 2017: 15.95Tambov Summer 2017: 17.02Svetlye Gory Open 2017: 15.16Belgorod Open 2017: 15.60SPB Championship 2017: 13.50MPEI Open 2017: 13.28Saratov Winter Open 2017: 15.28Moscow Winter Cubing 2018: 16.21HSE Open 2018: 14.30Chak-chak cubing in Kazan 2018: 15.78SPB Island 2018: 16.41YJ Fest 2018: 13.86Svetlye Gory Open 2018: 15.92WCA European Championship 2018: 15.60Welcome to Academy 2018: 16.89MPEI Open 2018: 18.74Kalmykia Open 2019: 10.01CCC Open Moscow 2019: 14.76YJ Fest Moscow 2019: 16.44Ramenskoe Open 2019: 15.28Samara Speedcubing Fest 2019: 18.22Elista Lyceum 2019: 16.11MPEI Open 2019: 16.27Krasnodar Winter 2019: 15.52NIS Aktobe Cube Days 2020: 15.55Izhevsk Winter Cube 2020: 15.80Tyumen Cube Fest 2020: 14.91SPB Muffin 2020: 21.65SPB Muffin Mini 2021: 16.39Tyumen Happy Sunday 2021: 12.85Bogoroditsk Open 2021: 14.41Cubing Ekat Open 2021: 16.01AUA Open 2021: 14.87KSF Open 2023: 15.59Tashkent Open 2024: 13.24Almaty Spring 2024: 15.02Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 17.52Central Asian Tour Bishkek 2025: 15.4810.0122.0028 Aug 201515 Feb 2025

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 0.01 away.
  • A sub-6 Clock single — 2,324 people have one; it is 0.74 away.

Targets move as he improves.