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Artem Melikian (Артем Мелікян)

3×3 · top 2.1% of 288,433 all-time · competing since May 2011 · 2011MELI01

Artem Melikian (Артем Мелікян) has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.59, set at Yuzhnoukrainsk Open 2015, puts him in the top 2.1% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 67th in Ukraine. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 85 competitions since May 2011, he has put 4,030 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 88% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.31 in May 2011 to 7.59, a 71% improvement. Artem has entered 85 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.1% of 288,433 all-time
7.59
signature single · Yuzhnoukrainsk Open 2015
4,030
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
3×37.5910.05
top 2.1%67 / 2,889
2×21.564.01
top 2.4%50 / 1,911
Pyraminx3.214.89
top 4.4%75 / 1,484
Skewb2.914.55
top 4.6%37 / 896
3×3 one-handed13.7417.78
top 5.7%53 / 765
3×3 Fewest Moves26 moves30.67
top 6.3%19 / 224
4×438.0642.32
top 9.9%94 / 878
Megaminx1:11.651:17.40
top 16.7%69 / 425
5×51:16.751:20.74
top 16.7%70 / 431
6×62:33.692:59.84
top 27.6%48 / 173
Square-121.7928.29
top 32.1%98 / 307
Clock11.7914.23
top 33.9%118 / 354
3×3 blindfolded2:10.912:57.48
top 37.0%63 / 177
7×74:41.134:50.63
top 44.9%69 / 140
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 3 cubes · 26:46—
early days — 3 solves33 / 67
4×4 blindfolded39:23.00—
early days — 1 solve28 / 28

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

Kyiv Open 2011: 26.31Ukraine Open 2012: 12.86Podolian Open 2012: 12.94Oleksandriia Open 2012: 11.68Kharkiv Winter 2012: 12.21100th Anniversary Meeting in Kyiv 2013: 12.09Ukrainian Open 2013: 11.85Podolian Open 2013: 10.73Kharkiv Cube Day 2013: 11.71Lutsk Open 2013: 9.12Oleksandriia Open 2013: 10.79NULAU Kharkiv Winter 2013: 11.08Kharkiv Open 2014: 10.09Dnepr Cube Day 2014: 10.86Kharkiv Special 2014: 10.78Ukrainian Nationals 2014: 10.80Odessa Open 2014: 10.12Podolian Open 2014: 9.66Oleksandriia Open 2014: 8.75Kharkiv Cube Day 2014: 9.90Beit Dan Open 2014: 10.14Kharkiv Winter 2014: 9.63Kharkiv Special 2015: 10.44Dnepr Cube Day 2015: 10.10Yuzhnoukrainsk Open 2015: 7.59Cowboys Summer 2015: 9.39Moldavian Nationals 2015: 9.95Kharkiv Cube Day 2015: 9.58Dnepr Skips 2015: 9.38Beit Dan Open 2015: 9.26Anatoliy Moroz Open 2015: 9.64Moldavian Nationals - Winter 2016: 9.83Kharkiv Special 2016: 10.14Dnepr Cube Days 2016: 10.47Cowboys Summer 2016: 10.73Moldavian Nationals Summer 2016: 9.39Kharkiv Cube Day 2016: 9.63Ukrainian Nationals 2016: 9.74Krivbass Open 2016: 9.16Fresh Cube 2017: 9.95Odessa Open 2017: 11.01Dnepr Skips 2017: 10.44Kharkiv Winter 2017: 10.22Dnipro Cube Generation 2018: 10.25Kharkiv Open 2019: 10.17Kharkiv Cubefall 2021: 10.47U24 Nationals 2022: 10.93U24 Tetiana Day 2023: 9.61Ternopil Science Cubing 2023: 9.93Nikita Kovalchuk Memorial 2023: 9.18Podolian Open 2023: 8.86U24 Pyramania Open 2023: 9.41Ukrainian Nationals 2023: 10.58U24 Tetiana Day 2024: 9.04Chernivtsi Open 2024: 10.25Ukrainian Nationals 2024: 9.63Ukrainian Nationals 2025: 9.12Ukrainian Nationals 2026: 11.307.5926.3114 May 201118 Sep 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.59 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.56 away.

Targets move as he improves.