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Ilya Yatsenko

3×3 · top 6.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2011 · 2011YATS01

Ilya Yatsenko has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.47, set at MPEI Open 2012, puts him in the top 6.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 210th in Russia. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since July 2011, he has put 175 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.40 in August 2011 to 9.47, a 56% improvement. Ilya has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.0% of 284,439 all-time
9.47
signature single · MPEI Open 2012
175
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×39.4712.00
top 6.0%210 / 6,475
2×22.915.19
top 13.2%462 / 4,782
4×454.681:00.09
top 30.4%489 / 2,080
3×3 one-handed24.0026.65
top 31.5%501 / 1,770
5×51:55.332:09.91
top 46.2%373 / 941
6×63:59.664:40.68
early days — 3 solves194 / 343
Pyraminx17.0620.55
top 87.9%3,365 / 3,777

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

Russia Open 2011: 21.40MPEI Open 2011: 16.36Ukraine Open 2012: 11.93MPEI Open 2012: 9.47MPEI Open 2013: 10.90MPEI Open 2014: 10.289.4721.4027 Aug 201128 Nov 2014

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 1.47 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.91 away.

Targets move as he improves.