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Artem Zapankov

Pyraminx · top 68.0% of 129,321 all-time · competing since May 2016 · 2016ZAPA02

Artem Zapankov has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 12.13, set at LETI Open 2017, puts him in the top 68.0% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,569th in Russia. Across 7 competitions since May 2016, he has put 88 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 5 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 50.61 in May 2016 to 35.97, a 29% improvement. Artem has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 68.0% of 129,321 all-time
12.13
signature single · LETI Open 2017
88
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
Pyraminx12.1315.14
top 68.0%2,569 / 3,777
3×335.9751.99
top 71.8%4,420 / 6,475
2×211.1815.93
top 82.0%3,795 / 4,782
Skewb25.8045.53
top 95.3%2,151 / 2,264

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

SPB Spring Open 2016: 50.61SPB Championship 2016: 1:02.12SPB Winter 2016: 1:02.55Cuberussia in SPB 2017: 1:01.17SPB Easter Open 2017: 51.95LETI Open 2017: 35.97CFCTC Open 2018: 1:04.3935.971:04.397 May 201631 Mar 2018

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-12 Pyraminx single — 86,891 people have one; it is 0.13 away.
  • A sub-30 3×3 single — 177,856 people have one; it is 5.97 away.

Targets move as he improves.