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Artem Kosarev (Артем Косарев)

3×3 · top 0.52% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2019 · 2019KOSA04

Artem Kosarev (Артем Косарев) has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.05, set at Bogoroditsk Open 2021, puts him in the top 0.52% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13th in Russia. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since August 2019, he has put 226 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 7.09 in August 2019 to 6.05, a 15% improvement. Artem has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.52% of 284,439 all-time
6.05
signature single · Bogoroditsk Open 2021
226
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×36.057.04
top 0.52%13 / 6,475
4×431.2536.81
top 3.6%32 / 2,080
2×22.023.12
top 4.9%149 / 4,782
Pyraminx3.805.42
top 6.7%178 / 3,777
Megaminx1:00.401:08.06
top 10.2%59 / 998
Square-112.6122.06
top 11.1%49 / 759
Skewb4.557.06
top 14.8%223 / 2,264
5×51:16.971:25.21
top 16.8%106 / 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

Eka Cube Days 2019: 7.09CCC Qualification Tyumen 2019: 7.35Eka Cube Winter 2020: 7.31Tyumen Cube Fest 2020: 6.69Ural Spring 2021: 6.62Tyumen Happy Saturday 2021: 6.43Bogoroditsk Open 2021: 6.05Tyumen Alpaca 2022: 6.486.057.3524 Aug 201923 Jan 2022

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.05 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 1.25 away.

Targets move as he improves.