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Daniil Starodubtsev (Даніїл Стародубцев)

Clock · top 4.5% of 32,048 all-time · competing since February 2018 · 2018STAR02

Daniil Starodubtsev (Даніїл Стародубцев) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 5.05, set at Ukrainian Nationals 2019, puts him in the top 4.5% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 17th in Ukraine. Until April 2015, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 14 competitions since February 2018, he has put 646 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 32.32 in February 2018 to 11.61, a 64% improvement. Daniil has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 4.5% of 32,048 all-time
5.05
signature single · Ukrainian Nationals 2019
646
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
Clock5.056.76
top 4.5%17 / 347
Pyraminx3.406.64
top 5.1%90 / 1,471
2×22.814.22
top 12.1%214 / 1,894
3×311.6114.17
top 12.5%332 / 2,868
Skewb4.726.74
top 16.1%148 / 884
3×3 one-handed22.8529.82
top 28.4%231 / 755
Square-123.0339.45
top 34.8%109 / 302
Megaminx1:41.051:50.49
top 35.2%137 / 424
4×41:02.401:10.43
top 39.0%333 / 867
5×52:50.133:20.03
top 74.7%330 / 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

Dnepr Never Fails 2018: 32.32Ukrainian Open 2018: 22.14Mariupol Open 2018: 21.15Kharkiv Open 2018: 19.01Ukrainian Nationals 2018: 18.53Smart Cube Fest 2018: 14.69Lviv Spring Days 2019: 14.18Indialantic Open 2019: 12.78Vinnytsia Cube Cup 2019: 14.59Ukrainian Nationals 2019: 11.61Dnepr Puzzles Fest 2019: 14.37Cubes Masters Zhytomyr 2021: 12.7611.6132.3223 Feb 20187 Aug 2021

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-5 Clock single — 1,421 people have one; it is 0.05 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.40 away.

Targets move as he improves.