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Ilya Shalashny (Илья Шалашный)

3×3 · top 5.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2018 · 2018SHAL03

Ilya Shalashny (Илья Шалашный) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.32, set at Ural Light 2019, puts him in the top 5.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 199th in Russia. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since August 2018, he has put 275 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 96% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.15 in August 2018 to 9.32, a 46% improvement. Ilya has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.6% of 284,439 all-time
9.32
signature single · Ural Light 2019
275
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 96% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×39.3211.56
top 5.6%199 / 6,475
2×22.184.17
top 6.0%197 / 4,782
Pyraminx3.889.64
top 7.1%188 / 3,777
Square-111.3013.77
top 8.5%34 / 759
Skewb4.226.96
top 12.4%186 / 2,264
4×442.6046.18
top 15.2%217 / 2,080
3×3 one-handed18.4919.99
top 16.4%241 / 1,770
5×51:32.351:36.31
top 29.2%206 / 941
Megaminx1:32.251:40.64
top 29.6%179 / 998
7×75:31.456:25.24
top 60.1%147 / 270
3×3 Fewest Moves48 moves
early days — 2 solves268 / 366
Clock26.6443.32
top 79.6%506 / 714
6×65:01.98
early days — 1 solve264 / 343

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 Open 2018: 17.15Ural Autumn 2018: 14.47Ural Winter 2019: 12.77Ural Spring 2019: 10.61Ural Open 2019: 10.26Ural Autumn 2019: 11.20Ural Light 2019: 9.32Ural Winter 2020: 10.609.3217.1525 Aug 201822 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.32 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.18 away.

Targets move as he improves.