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Bogdan Shirokov

3×3 one-handed · top 2.0% of 74,621 all-time · competing since August 2017 · 2017SHIR03

Bogdan Shirokov has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 11.15, set at Perm Open 2019, puts him in the top 2.0% of the 74,621 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 25th in Russia. Until July 2011, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since August 2017, he has put 186 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.73 in August 2017 to 9.33, a 66% improvement. Bogdan has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 2.0% of 74,621 all-time
11.15
signature single · Perm Open 2019
186
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×3 one-handed11.1514.25
top 2.0%25 / 1,772
3×39.3312.52
top 5.7%202 / 6,485
Pyraminx4.166.02
top 8.5%232 / 3,784
2×22.544.24
top 9.4%305 / 4,788
Square-113.2829.18
top 12.6%56 / 760
4×441.9351.51
top 14.5%206 / 2,085
5×51:19.761:33.82
top 19.1%121 / 942
Skewb7.4210.60
top 37.0%617 / 2,264
Clock12.7816.53
top 38.7%193 / 715
Megaminx2:25.433:09.78
top 59.2%435 / 999
3×3 Fewest Moves45 moves52.00
early days — 3 solves226 / 367

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

Udmurtia Open 2017: 27.73Izhevsk Winter Cube 2019: 9.75Perm Open 2019: 9.33Udmurtia Open 2019: 12.569.3327.7312 Aug 201710 Aug 2019

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-10 3×3 one-handed single — 800 people have one; it is 1.15 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.33 away.

Targets move as he improves.