People · Ukraine
Blagomyr Popok (Благомир Попок)
3×3 · top 8.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2015 · 2015POPO06
Blagomyr Popok (Благомир Попок) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.20, set at U24 Nationals 2022, puts him in the top 8.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 221st in Ukraine. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since November 2015, he has put 528 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 77% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.58 in November 2015 to 10.20, a 67% improvement. Blagomyr has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Ukraine | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.20 | 13.14 | top 8.0% | 221 / 2,868 | |
| 2×2 | 2.63 | 4.74 | top 10.2% | 184 / 1,894 | |
| Skewb | 3.98 | 7.20 | top 10.8% | 93 / 884 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.75 | 7.62 | top 11.7% | 198 / 1,471 | |
| 4×4 | 46.88 | 53.29 | top 20.6% | 182 / 867 | |
| Square-1 | 17.30 | 36.64 | top 21.6% | 63 / 302 | |
| Megaminx | 1:20.60 | 1:26.83 | top 22.2% | 93 / 424 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 23.04 | 31.02 | top 28.9% | 233 / 755 | |
| Clock | 14.98 | 25.91 | top 47.9% | 165 / 347 | |
| 5×5 | 2:41.53 | — | top 71.1% | 306 / 425 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 10 Dec 2022Three personal bests in one day at U24 Nationals 2022.
- 18 Sep 2022Four personal bests in one day at U24 Open September 2022.
- 21 Aug 2021Three personal bests in one day at Horse City 2021.
- 7 Dec 2019Six personal bests in one day at Frankivsk Open 2019.
- 2 Nov 2019Four personal bests in one day at Smartcube Fest Kyiv 2019.
- 16 Mar 2019First sub-15 3×3: 14.69 at Lviv Spring Days 2019.
Competitions
- U24 Tetiana Day 2024 · 27 Jan 2024
- U24 Nationals 2022 · 10 Dec 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- U24 Open November 2022 · 20 Nov 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- U24 Open October 2022 · 23 Oct 2022
- U24 Open September 2022 · 18 Sep 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Horse City 2021 · 21 Aug 2021 — 3 personal bests set
- Frankivsk Open 2019 · 7 Dec 2019 — 6 personal bests set
- Smartcube Fest Kyiv 2019 · 2 Nov 2019 — 4 personal bests set
- Horse City 2019 · 3 Aug 2019
- Lviv Spring Days 2019 · 16 Mar 2019 — 6 personal bests set
- Smart Cube Fest 2018 · 9 Nov 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- Anatoliy Moroz Open 2015 · 28 Nov 2015
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.
- Lev Golub (Лев Голуб) — met in 96 rounds, never finished ahead
- Ihor Sukhovatenko (Ігор Суховатенко) — met in 90 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Mykhailo Akhunov (Михайло Ахунов) — met in 84 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.20 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.63 away.
Targets move as he improves.