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Danil Kotenkov (Данил Котенков)

2×2 · top 0.45% of 186,767 all-time · competing since November 2018 · 2018KOTE06

Danil Kotenkov (Данил Котенков) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.94, set at MPEI Open 2019, puts him in the top 0.45% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 18th in Russia. Until November 2011, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since November 2018, he has put 238 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 3 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.76 in November 2018 to 8.88, a 47% improvement. Danil has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.45% of 186,767 all-time
0.94
signature single · MPEI Open 2019
238
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
2×20.944.06
top 0.45%18 / 4,782
Pyraminx2.313.40
top 1.7%30 / 3,777
3×38.8811.01
top 4.6%159 / 6,475
3×3 one-handed13.7422.01
top 5.6%76 / 1,770
Megaminx56.231:02.18
top 8.0%48 / 998
4×438.3846.02
top 10.2%129 / 2,080
5×51:20.091:27.29
top 19.2%121 / 941
Clock8.9510.69
top 19.7%95 / 714
Square-118.9124.45
top 25.5%130 / 759
Skewb7.2711.33
top 35.8%589 / 2,264
6×62:55.523:22.23
early days — 3 solves103 / 343
3×3 Fewest Moves41 moves
early days — 1 solve159 / 366

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

MPEI Open 2018: 16.76CCC Open Moscow 2019: 11.97YJ Fest Moscow 2019: 10.97Ramenskoe Open 2019: 8.88MPEI Open 2019: 9.84Volga Nizhny Novgorod 2020: 8.998.8816.7623 Nov 201829 Feb 2020

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-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.31 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.88 away.

Targets move as he improves.