People · Bulgaria
Ilian Bashev
3×3 · top 0.45% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2019 · 2019BASH06
Ilian Bashev has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.93, set at Sofia Summer 2026, puts him in the top 0.45% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in Bulgaria. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since August 2019, he has put 572 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 65% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.17 in August 2019 to 5.93, a 42% improvement. Ilian has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Bulgaria | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 5.93 | 7.84 | top 0.45% | 4 / 567 | |
| 2×2 | 1.27 | 1.92 | top 1.3% | 5 / 407 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 19.28 | 25.35 | top 18.6% | 24 / 139 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 1 Dec 2019First sub-10 3×3: 9.35 at Lovech Winter 2019.
- 31 Aug 2019First competition: Sofia Autumn 2019. A 10.37 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Sofia Summer 2026 · 6 Jun 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Blagoevgrad Open 2026 · 25 Apr 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Sofia Open 2026 · 3 Jan 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Thessaloniki Open 2025 · 6 Sep 2025
- Sofia Spring 2025 · 10 May 2025
- Sofia Open 2025 · 29 Mar 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Bulgarian Nationals 2024 · 14 Dec 2024
- Tarnovo End Of Summer 2024 · 21 Sep 2024
- Burgas Summer 2024 · 17 Aug 2024
- Varna Open 2024 · 13 Jul 2024
- 50 Years of Cubing Bulgaria 2024 · 11 May 2024
- Pernik Open 2024 · 27 Apr 2024
- Sofia Spring 2024 · 16 Mar 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Lovech Winter 2024 · 20 Jan 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Tarnovo Cubing Autumn 2023 · 21 Oct 2023
- Burgas Open 2023 · 5 Aug 2023
- Bulgarian Aniversary 2023 · 4 Mar 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Tarnovo Open 2022 · 6 Aug 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Lovech Winter 2019 · 1 Dec 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Macedonian Nationals 2019 · 26 Oct 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Sofia Autumn 2019 · 31 Aug 2019 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Todor Enikov — met in 75 rounds, finished ahead 74 times
- Alexander Tenev — met in 75 rounds, finished ahead 42 times
- Victor Hadzhibeev — met in 69 rounds, finished ahead 60 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.93 away.
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.27 away.
Targets move as he improves.