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Bakhytzhan Sharipbay (Бахытжан Шарипбай)

Skewb · top 0.78% of 73,281 all-time · competing since October 2017 · 2017BAHY01

Bakhytzhan Sharipbay (Бахытжан Шарипбай) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 1.73, set at Almaty Snowflake Cube 2019, puts him in the top 0.78% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3rd in Kazakhstan. Until July 2015, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since October 2017, he has put 918 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.63 in October 2017 to 9.38, a 59% improvement. Bakhytzhan has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 0.78% of 73,281 all-time
1.73
signature single · Almaty Snowflake Cube 2019
918
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingKazakhstan
Skewb1.734.71
top 0.78%3 / 474
Pyraminx2.254.40
top 1.6%11 / 803
3×39.3811.53
top 5.8%78 / 1,315
2×22.172.81
top 6.0%50 / 976
Megaminx1:04.371:11.89
top 12.3%31 / 243
3×3 one-handed17.1322.01
top 12.9%58 / 330
4×441.8652.98
top 14.3%66 / 415
Square-133.6646.95
top 56.2%73 / 140
5×54:09.13
early days — 2 solves182 / 216

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

Kazakhstan Open 2017: 22.63Kyrgyzstan Open 2017: 13.98Eagle of the East 2018: 15.82Aktobe Cube Days 2018: 14.67Almaty Summer 2018: 14.01Semey Open 2018: 14.58Pchelka Open 2018: 11.68Cubing Kazakhstan Nationals 2018: 14.34Almaty Altyn Cube 2018: 12.10Almaty Winter Cube 2019: 11.09KSF Almaty City 2019: 11.13KSF Karaganda City 2019: 10.78KSF Nur-Sultan City 2019: 12.56Cubing Semey Open 2019: 10.55SCS1 Almaty Open Air 2019: 11.01Cubing Kazakhstan Nationals 2019: 9.38Almaty Snowflake Cube 2019: 9.97KSF Club Almaty 2022: 10.309.3822.638 Oct 201710 Dec 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-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.73 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.25 away.

Targets move as he improves.