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Alexey Surnin

3×3 · top 21.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2015 · 2015SURN01

Alexey Surnin has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.00, set at Ural Autumn 2016, puts him in the top 21.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,021st in Russia. Across 3 competitions since January 2015, he has put 140 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.56 in January 2015 to 14.00, a 32% improvement. Alexey has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 21.0% of 284,439 all-time
14.00
signature single · Ural Autumn 2016
140
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×314.0020.75
top 21.0%1,021 / 6,475
4×41:08.601:24.92
top 45.5%789 / 2,080
2×25.589.55
top 46.3%1,947 / 4,782
Pyraminx11.6615.11
top 65.0%2,451 / 3,777
Skewb12.5417.20
top 68.7%1,356 / 2,264
3×3 one-handed43.1447.59
top 69.5%1,187 / 1,770
Megaminx5:40.46
early days — 2 solves972 / 998

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

Ekb Open 2015: 20.56Ural Autumn 2016: 14.00Ural Open 2017: 18.3514.0020.5610 Jan 201525 Aug 2017

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.00 away.
  • A sub-1:00 4×4 single — 30,601 people have one; it is 8.60 away.

Targets move as he improves.