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Alexey Polyashov

3×3 one-handed · top 1.6% of 73,695 all-time · competing since April 2010 · 2010POLY01

Alexey Polyashov has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 10.78, set at Tula Open 2014, puts him in the top 1.6% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 20th in Russia. Until July 2011, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 52 competitions since April 2010, he has put 1,667 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 95% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.93 in April 2010 to 8.82, a 45% improvement. Alexey has entered 52 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 1.6% of 73,695 all-time
10.78
signature single · Tula Open 2014
1,667
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 95% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×3 one-handed10.7813.77
top 1.6%20 / 1,770
3×38.8210.75
top 4.5%151 / 6,475
2×22.284.25
top 6.9%221 / 4,782
4×447.7155.55
top 21.8%316 / 2,080
Megaminx1:24.861:34.61
top 24.8%140 / 998
Pyraminx8.2510.65
top 38.3%1,386 / 3,777
3×3 Fewest Moves40 moves—
early days — 2 solves146 / 366
5×52:36.792:58.83
top 69.0%590 / 941

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

Russia Open 2010: 15.93European Rubik's Cube Championship 2010: 14.80MPEI Open 2010: 12.75Moscow North-West Open 2011: 10.56Russia Open 2011: 11.52MPEI Open 2011: 11.02Ural Open 2012: 10.05Moscow North-West Open 2012: 10.56Oleksandriia Open 2012: 9.34MPEI Open 2012: 10.02Kharkiv Winter 2012: 10.13Moscow North-West Open Winter 2013: 9.91Nelidovo Open 2013: 10.47Moscow Summer 2013: 10.08Kharkiv Cube Day 2013: 10.28Kalmyki Open 2013: 10.25Minsk Open 2013: 10.22MPEI Open 2013: 11.09NULAU Kharkiv Winter 2013: 10.18CCC Winter Open 2014: 11.13Tula Open 2014: 9.97Dvina Open 2014: 10.73Cubing Fest 2014: 10.91Dvina One-Handed Edition 2014: 8.84CCC Autumn Open 2014: 10.71MPEI Open 2014: 9.97Dvina 3.0 2015: 11.49Moscow Spring Open 2015: 10.92Vrn Spring 2015: 10.19Saint Petersburg Spring Open 2015: 10.42Saint Petersburg Summer Open 2015: 10.78CCC End of Summer 2015: 10.10Moscow South-West Open 2015: 10.28MPEI Open 2015: 11.86Saint Petersburg Welcome To 2016: 11.29CCC Spring Open 2016: 9.40European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 10.69Belgorod Open 2016: 10.16MPEI Open 2016: 10.63White City Cubing 2017: 8.82Svetlye Gory Open 2017: 9.71CCC Open Moscow 2019: 11.36CCC Qualification Barnaul 2019: 10.48CCC Qualification Saratov 2019: 9.89CCC Qualification Vladivostok 2019: 9.67CCC Qualification Sochi 2019: 11.50CCC Qualification Kaliningrad 2019: 11.43CCC Qualification Tyumen 2019: 10.70MPEI Open 2019: 12.578.8215.9324 Apr 201022 Nov 2019

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 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 0.78 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.82 away.

Targets move as he improves.