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Farid Mikhailov

3×3 · top 1.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2015 · 2015MIKH04

Farid Mikhailov has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.87, set at Cubing Semey Open 2019, puts him in the top 1.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13th in Kazakhstan. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 37 competitions since October 2015, he has put 2,359 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.97 in October 2015 to 6.87, a 37% improvement. Farid has entered 37 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.2% of 284,439 all-time
6.87
signature single · Cubing Semey Open 2019
2,359
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 74% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingKazakhstan
3×36.878.36
top 1.2%13 / 1,315
4×427.2533.48
top 1.5%8 / 415
2×21.502.75
top 2.2%8 / 976
3×3 one-handed11.8813.72
top 2.8%14 / 330
Pyraminx2.803.62
top 3.0%19 / 803
5×556.031:00.88
top 3.7%8 / 216
3×3 Fewest Moves25 moves31.00
top 5.1%2 / 62
Skewb3.166.47
top 5.8%31 / 474
7×72:45.742:49.61
top 6.7%4 / 43
3×3 blindfolded45.941:25.69
top 8.6%6 / 35
6×61:57.202:04.70
top 9.9%8 / 62
Square-113.5221.89
top 13.0%16 / 140
Megaminx1:18.321:26.76
top 20.7%45 / 243
3×3 Multi-Blind8 of 8 cubes · 41:29—
top 22.0%2 / 13
Clock11.4515.38
top 32.3%44 / 135
4×4 blindfolded9:04.94—
top 51.9%5 / 8
5×5 blindfolded21:23.00—
top 65.4%3 / 4

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

Saint Petersburg Autumn Open 2015: 10.97Saint Petersburg Welcome To 2016: 10.91Cuberussia in SPB 2017: 10.68SPB Easter Open 2017: 9.16LETI Open 2017: 9.26SPB Championship 2017: 7.83MPEI Open 2017: 10.19Muffin Winter 2017: 9.74CFCTC Open 2018: 9.02SPB Island 2018: 8.77Svetlye Gory Open 2018: 9.38Pchelka Open 2018: 8.65Kaspiy Open 2018: 8.50Speedcubes Fest in SPB 2018: 8.05Cubing Kazakhstan Nationals 2018: 8.76Welcome to Academy 2018: 8.42MPEI Open 2018: 8.17KSF Aktobe City 2019: 7.98KSF Atyrau City 2019: 7.76Pskov Open 2019: 7.79CCC Open Moscow 2019: 8.43Luga Open 2019: 7.81CCC Qualification Barnaul 2019: 7.97Cubing Semey Open 2019: 6.87CCC Qualification Saratov 2019: 7.87Ramenskoe Open 2019: 7.78Cubing Kazakhstan Nationals 2019: 7.58MPEI Open 2019: 7.86CCC Qualification Kazan 2020: 8.08CCC Qualification SPB 2020: 9.26Bogoroditsk Open 2021: 7.866.8710.9724 Oct 201529 May 2021

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.87 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 2.25 away.

Targets move as he improves.