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Asanali Zhanabayev (Асанали Жанабаев)

3×3 · top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2019 · 2019ZHAN23

Asanali Zhanabayev (Асанали Жанабаев) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.96, set at Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2022, puts him in the top 1.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 14th in Kazakhstan. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since March 2019, he has put 474 official solves on the record across eleven 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 13.57 in March 2019 to 6.96, a 49% improvement. Asanali has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time
6.96
signature single · Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2022
474
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 standingKazakhstan
3×36.968.88
top 1.3%14 / 1,315
Pyraminx2.224.03
top 1.5%8 / 803
4×428.1333.90
top 1.8%9 / 415
2×21.693.61
top 3.0%17 / 976
Skewb2.804.93
top 4.0%21 / 474
5×51:02.381:07.62
top 6.8%14 / 216
3×3 one-handed14.9317.84
top 8.0%40 / 330
Square-115.0925.60
top 16.7%18 / 140
Megaminx1:39.431:45.95
top 34.3%78 / 243
Clock12.2714.70
top 36.2%47 / 135
6×63:39.92
early days — 1 solve39 / 62

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

KSF Pavlodar City 2019: 13.57Cubing Kazakhstan Nationals 2019: 10.49Cubing Khan Shatyr Open 2022: 7.92KSF Club Pavlodar 2022: 8.82Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2022: 6.96Cubing Kazakhstan Nationals 2022: 9.24KSF Open 2023: 8.106.9613.572 Mar 20198 Jul 2023

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 0.96 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.22 away.

Targets move as he improves.