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Davit Taranyan

3×3 · top 5.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2021 · 2021TARA01

Davit Taranyan has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.27, set at International Children's Day Evening Armenia 2024, puts him in the top 5.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8th in Armenia. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since December 2021, he has put 113 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 3 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.64 in December 2021 to 9.27, a 13% improvement. Davit has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.5% of 284,439 all-time
9.27
signature single · International Children's Day Evening Armenia 2024
113
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingArmenia
3×39.2712.33
top 5.5%8 / 210
Pyraminx5.419.33
top 15.8%14 / 96
4×457.961:23.01
top 34.3%14 / 44
2×24.656.58
top 34.9%33 / 108
3×3 one-handed25.6332.98
top 35.9%13 / 49

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

AUA Open 2021: 10.64Yerevan Open 2023: 11.54Armenian Open 2023: 11.09ChessCubing Armenia 2024: 10.80International Children's Day Evening Armenia 2024: 9.279.2711.5410 Dec 20211 Jun 2024

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.27 away.
  • A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.41 away.

Targets move as he improves.