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Aliya Bakhytjan (Бахытжан Алия)

Pyraminx · top 9.9% of 129,321 all-time · competing since April 2022 · 2022BAKH01

Aliya Bakhytjan (Бахытжан Алия) has been competing for 4 years. Her best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 4.44, set at Ulaanbaatar Summer 2026, puts her in the top 9.9% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 83rd in Mongolia. Until September 2006, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since April 2022, she has put 709 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 14.31 in April 2022 to 11.18, a 22% improvement. Aliya has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 9.9% of 129,321 all-time
4.44
signature single · Ulaanbaatar Summer 2026
709
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMongolia
Pyraminx4.447.67
top 9.9%83 / 1,577
3×311.1814.71
top 11.1%118 / 1,987
Skewb4.746.46
top 16.2%32 / 325
Clock8.5610.64
top 17.8%19 / 139
2×23.566.29
top 20.9%172 / 1,717

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

Ulaanbaatar Spring 2022: 14.31UB Puzzle Party 2022: 16.81Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2022: 15.72Mongolia Championship 2022: 17.26Darkhan Winter 2022: 14.27Mongolian Open 2022: 14.54Ulaanbaatar Spring 2023: 18.15Shambala Cubing Day 2023: 11.18KSF Open 2023: 17.75Rudny Open 2023: 13.54Mongolian Championship 2023: 16.06Zamiin-Uud Open 2023: 14.02Sainshand Open 2023: 15.71GAN Mongolian Open 2024: 14.65QY Mongolian Championship 2024: 13.08Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 15.99Ulaanbaatar Winter 2024: 16.58New Year in Bishkek 2024: 12.99CubingMGL Coldest Capital 2025: 12.20Central Asian Tour Astana 2025: 13.12Central Asian Tour Bishkek 2025: 11.33Central Asian Tour Tashkent 2025: 11.83Ulaanbaatar Nomad Mazaalai 2025: 12.69Umnugovi Cube Day 2025: 13.95Almaty Summer 2025: 14.51 Kyrgyzstan Nationals 2025: 12.80Ulaanbaatar Summer 2026: 16.5711.1818.152 Apr 202222 Jun 2026

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.44 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.18 away.

Targets move as she improves.