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Denys Zhytnyk (Денис Житник)

3×3 · top 23.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2011 · 2011ZHYT01

Denys Zhytnyk (Денис Житник) has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.66, set at NULAU Kharkiv Winter 2013, puts him in the top 23.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 596th in Ukraine. Across 8 competitions since May 2011, he has put 189 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. That figure sets aside his 3 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.06 in May 2011 to 14.66, a 56% improvement. Denys has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 23.3% of 284,439 all-time
14.66
signature single · NULAU Kharkiv Winter 2013
189
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
3×314.6618.90
top 23.3%596 / 2,868
2×24.0910.48
top 27.6%509 / 1,894
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves
early days — 1 solve70 / 222
3×3 blindfolded1:53.98
top 31.3%50 / 177
3×3 one-handed27.2935.82
top 40.1%331 / 755
4×41:23.521:29.03
top 58.7%490 / 867
Pyraminx11.8816.33
top 66.4%1,048 / 1,471
5×52:37.313:01.71
top 69.2%293 / 425
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 4 cubes · 24:07
top 75.5%49 / 67
7×711:55.0012:17.00
top 98.3%135 / 135

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

Kyiv Open 2011: 33.06Ukraine Open 2012: 20.80Oleksandriia Open 2012: 18.94Ukrainian Open 2013: 19.04Kharkiv Cube Day 2013: 16.88NULAU Kharkiv Winter 2013: 14.66Kharkiv Open 2014: 17.43Kharkiv Special 2014: 16.6114.6633.0614 May 201122 Mar 2014

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.66 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.09 away.

Targets move as he improves.