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Alina Palinchuk (Аліна Палінчук)

Pyraminx · top 1.8% of 129,321 all-time · competing since March 2019 · 2019PALI02

Alina Palinchuk (Аліна Палінчук) has been competing for 8 years. Her best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.33, set at Frankivsk Open 2019, puts her in the top 1.8% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 30th in Ukraine. Until July 2011, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since March 2019, she has put 248 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 91% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her Pyraminx best has come down from 12.56 in March 2019 to 2.33, an 81% improvement. Alina has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 1.8% of 129,321 all-time
2.33
signature single · Frankivsk Open 2019
248
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
Pyraminx2.333.96
top 1.8%30 / 1,471
3×311.1413.86
top 10.9%276 / 2,868
2×22.735.64
top 11.3%198 / 1,894
4×446.9351.90
top 20.7%183 / 867
3×3 one-handed23.9836.70
top 31.4%253 / 755
5×51:54.942:04.38
top 45.9%197 / 425
Clock15.0417.06
top 48.1%166 / 347

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

Lviv Spring Days 2019: 12.56Vinnytsia Cube Cup 2019: 6.25Ukrainian Nationals 2019: 3.81Smartcube Fest Kyiv 2019: 3.67Cubes Masters Zhytomyr 2019: 2.78Frankivsk Open 2019: 2.33Lubelska Liga Speedcubingu II 2020: 3.612.3312.5616 Mar 201922 Feb 2020

Best single per competition, Pyraminx. 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.33 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.14 away.

Targets move as she improves.