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Elena Tsurkina (Елена Цуркина)

3×3 · top 26.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2012 · 2012TSUR01

Elena Tsurkina (Елена Цуркина) has been competing for 14 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 15.52, set at Lutsk Open 2013, puts her in the top 26.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 674th in Ukraine. Across 6 competitions since December 2012, she has put 120 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. That figure sets aside her 4 DNFs. Her 3×3 best has come down from 28.96 in December 2012 to 15.52, a 46% improvement. Elena has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 26.2% of 284,439 all-time
15.52
signature single · Lutsk Open 2013
120
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
3×315.5218.22
top 26.2%674 / 2,868
2×25.906.80
top 49.8%898 / 1,894
Megaminx2:15.972:41.41
top 54.3%212 / 424
Pyraminx12.9516.43
top 72.6%1,142 / 1,471
3×3 one-handed57.221:36.89
top 82.2%629 / 755
3×3 Fewest Moves54 moves
early days — 2 solves193 / 222

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

Kharkiv Winter 2012: 28.96Ukrainian Open 2013: 19.55Podolian Open 2013: 17.66Kharkiv Cube Day 2013: 16.41Lutsk Open 2013: 15.52NULAU Kharkiv Winter 2013: 16.8615.5228.968 Dec 20127 Dec 2013

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 0.52 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.90 away.

Targets move as she improves.