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Ioann Smolin (Иоанн Смолин)

3×3 · top 6.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2018 · 2018SMOL01

Ioann Smolin (Иоанн Смолин) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.66, set at Ramenskoe Open 2019, puts him in the top 6.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 230th in Russia. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since August 2018, he has put 229 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.60 in August 2018 to 9.66, a 69% improvement. Ioann has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.5% of 284,439 all-time
9.66
signature single · Ramenskoe Open 2019
229
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 79% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×39.6611.92
top 6.5%230 / 6,475
2×22.974.52
top 13.9%490 / 4,782
Pyraminx5.536.62
top 16.6%535 / 3,777
4×444.5348.40
top 17.7%251 / 2,080
Megaminx1:16.491:27.09
top 19.6%108 / 998
3×3 one-handed21.1226.84
top 23.6%378 / 1,770
5×51:33.351:40.36
top 30.1%219 / 941
Skewb6.759.80
top 31.7%506 / 2,264
Square-123.8835.89
top 36.6%202 / 759
Clock15.4119.53
top 49.6%267 / 714
6×64:47.60
early days — 1 solve252 / 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

SPB Summer 2018: 31.60Welcome to Academy 2018: 16.18SPB Muffin Winter 2019: 13.20Sura Spring 2019: 12.25CCC Open Moscow 2019: 11.50YJ Fest Moscow 2019: 11.12Ramenskoe Open 2019: 9.66MPEI Open 2019: 10.879.6631.604 Aug 201822 Nov 2019

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 1.66 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.97 away.

Targets move as he improves.