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Ariunbold Bayanmunkh (Баянмөнх Ариунболд)

3×3 · top 2.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2013 · 2013BAYA01

Ariunbold Bayanmunkh (Баянмөнх Ариунболд) has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.02, set at Mongolian Championship 2023, puts him in the top 2.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 43rd in Mongolia. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since September 2013, he has put 738 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 61% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.53 in September 2013 to 8.02, a 72% improvement. Ariunbold has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.8% of 284,439 all-time
8.02
signature single · Mongolian Championship 2023
738
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMongolia
3×38.0210.09
top 2.8%43 / 1,987
2×22.182.79
top 6.0%51 / 1,717
4×434.3038.96
top 6.1%22 / 196
Pyraminx3.746.01
top 6.4%62 / 1,577
Skewb3.807.37
top 9.6%25 / 325
Square-112.1516.70
top 10.2%5 / 33
3×3 one-handed17.2919.18
top 13.3%27 / 138
5×51:13.941:24.64
top 14.5%23 / 86
Megaminx1:20.621:29.55
top 22.3%23 / 56
6×62:46.662:53.65
top 34.4%14 / 27
Clock15.0116.69
top 48.0%62 / 139
7×75:25.555:52.84
top 58.5%14 / 16
3×3 blindfolded7:09.68—
early days — 1 solve30 / 30

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

Mongolian Open 2013: 28.53Xi'an New Year 2017: 11.46Mongolia 2017: 10.04Dornogovi Open 2018: 10.16Umnugovi Autumn 2018: 9.37Dornogovi Cube Day 2019: 8.86Mongolia Championship 2022: 8.48Mongolian Open 2022: 8.71Ulaanbaatar Spring 2023: 9.70Shambala Cubing Day 2023: 9.02Mongolian Championship 2023: 8.02Ulaanbaatar Spring 2024: 8.74Ulaanbaatar Cubing Challenge Apr 2024: 8.80MR Ulaanbaatar 2024: 9.50Ulaanbaatar Cubing Challenge Jun 2024: 9.96Ulaanbaatar Summer 2025: 11.208.0228.5321 Sep 201328 Jun 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.02 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.18 away.

Targets move as he improves.