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Hleb Marchenko (Глеб Марченко)

2×2 · top 3.2% of 186,767 all-time · competing since May 2017 · 2017MARC12

Hleb Marchenko (Глеб Марченко) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.73, set at Kharkiv Open 2019, puts him in the top 3.2% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 71st in Ukraine. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 14 competitions since May 2017, he has put 768 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 2×2 best has come down from 2.81 in May 2017 to 1.73, a 38% improvement. Hleb has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 3.2% of 186,767 all-time
1.73
signature single · Kharkiv Open 2019
768
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
2×21.733.43
top 3.2%71 / 1,894
Skewb2.815.28
top 4.1%30 / 884
3×39.4412.56
top 5.9%171 / 2,868
Pyraminx4.555.67
top 10.5%179 / 1,471
4×451.521:01.57
top 26.6%234 / 867
3×3 one-handed25.4228.69
top 35.3%282 / 755
Megaminx1:44.322:08.57
top 37.2%145 / 424
Clock13.8815.39
top 43.3%152 / 347
5×52:07.632:33.98
top 54.0%235 / 425

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

Fresh Cube 2017: 2.81Kharkiv Cube Day 2017: 5.27Belgorod Open 2017: 2.58Dnepr Skips 2017: 2.75Lviv Cube Cup 2017: 2.59Kharkiv Winter 2017: 2.40Dnepr Never Fails 2018: 2.10Ukrainian Open 2018: 2.54White City Cubing 2018: 2.55Kharkiv Open 2018: 2.74Belgorod Open 2018: 2.65Smart Cube Fest 2018: 2.91Ukrainian Open 2019: 2.57Kharkiv Open 2019: 1.731.735.2713 May 201717 Aug 2019

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.73 away.
  • A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.81 away.

Targets move as he improves.