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Ilyas Arystanbekov (Ильяс Арыстанбеков)

3×3 · top 2.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2014 · 2014ARYS01

Ilyas Arystanbekov (Ильяс Арыстанбеков) has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.07, set at NIS Aktobe Cube Days 2020, puts him in the top 2.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 36th in Kazakhstan. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 28 competitions since March 2014, he has put 1,187 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 58% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.41 in March 2014 to 8.07, a 14% improvement. Ilyas has entered 28 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.9% of 284,439 all-time
8.07
signature single · NIS Aktobe Cube Days 2020
1,187
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingKazakhstan
3×38.079.72
top 2.9%36 / 1,315
4×431.1637.18
top 3.6%22 / 415
3×3 one-handed14.3918.24
top 6.9%32 / 330
2×22.594.39
top 9.8%94 / 976
5×51:15.931:21.52
top 16.0%32 / 216
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves—
top 23.4%11 / 62
Megaminx1:27.301:44.95
top 26.4%60 / 243
Pyraminx7.9011.33
top 35.4%246 / 803
6×63:01.703:11.66
top 41.9%28 / 62
7×74:38.014:48.06
top 43.8%24 / 43
Square-11:10.261:33.65
top 89.2%116 / 140

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 Winter 2014: 9.41Kazakhstan Open 2017: 10.01Aktobe Cube Days 2018: 9.46Almaty Summer 2018: 8.41Semey Open 2018: 8.93KSF Semey City 2018: 8.66Cubing Kazakhstan Nationals 2018: 9.98Welcome to Academy 2018: 9.40KSF Aktobe City 2019: 9.05KSF Atyrau City 2019: 9.07KSF Ust-Kamenogorsk City 2019: 9.43KSF Pavlodar City 2019: 8.42KSF Almaty City 2019: 8.87KSF Karaganda City 2019: 9.24KSF Nur-Sultan City 2019: 9.17CCC Qualification Barnaul 2019: 8.34Cubing Semey Open 2019: 8.14SCS1 Almaty Open Air 2019: 9.29Cubing Kazakhstan Nationals 2019: 8.88NIS Aktobe Cube Days 2020: 8.07KSF Club Semey 2021: 8.90NIS & KSF OPEN 2022: 9.44Cubing Khan Shatyr Open 2022: 8.61KSF Club Pavlodar 2022: 8.88KSF Club Semey 2022: 11.06Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2022: 8.74Cubing Kazakhstan Nationals 2022: 8.44KSF Club Almaty 2022: 10.118.0711.061 Mar 201410 Dec 2022

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 0.07 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 1.16 away.

Targets move as he improves.