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Ekaterina Shutenko

4×4 · top 0.9% of 83,917 all-time · competing since November 2017 · 2017SHUT02

Ekaterina Shutenko has been competing for 9 years. Her best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 25.70, set at Ural Winter 2020, puts her in the top 0.9% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 9th in Russia. Until June 2013, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since November 2017, she has put 465 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 86% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 20.43 in November 2017 to 8.74, a 57% improvement. Ekaterina has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 0.9% of 83,917 all-time
25.70
signature single · Ural Winter 2020
465
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 86% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
4×425.7035.54
top 0.9%9 / 2,080
3×38.7410.15
top 4.3%142 / 6,475
6×61:51.782:02.85
top 7.9%16 / 343
5×51:08.901:15.18
top 10.8%53 / 941
7×73:01.823:07.91
top 11.1%18 / 270
Pyraminx4.786.85
top 11.9%334 / 3,777
2×22.954.37
top 13.7%481 / 4,782
Megaminx1:18.221:23.24
top 20.6%113 / 998
Skewb5.659.71
top 23.1%372 / 2,264
Square-119.2628.23
top 26.2%132 / 759
3×3 one-handed23.1929.07
top 29.3%467 / 1,770
Clock11.1713.40
top 30.9%144 / 714
3×3 Fewest Moves50 moves
early days — 1 solve287 / 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

Ural Autumn 2017: 20.43Ural Winter 2018: 15.22Ural Open 2018: 12.33Ural Autumn 2018: 11.52Ural Winter 2019: 11.56Ural Spring 2019: 10.10Ural Open 2019: 9.02Ural Autumn 2019: 8.98Ural Light 2019: 9.11Ural Winter 2020: 8.748.7420.4318 Nov 201722 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 0.70 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.74 away.

Targets move as she improves.