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Ivan Polukarov

3×3 · top 18.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2017 · 2017POLU02

Ivan Polukarov has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.22, set at MPEI Open 2019, puts him in the top 18.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 865th in Russia. Across 15 competitions since September 2017, he has put 371 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 19% around a typical one; 99% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 6 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.73 in September 2017 to 13.22, a 56% improvement. Ivan has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 18.2% of 284,439 all-time
13.22
signature single · MPEI Open 2019
371
official solves on the record
19%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 99% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×313.2215.97
top 18.2%865 / 6,475
2×23.726.37
top 23.0%882 / 4,782
Pyraminx6.468.43
top 23.5%787 / 3,777
4×449.4657.69
top 24.0%364 / 2,080
Skewb6.0413.00
top 26.0%413 / 2,264
5×51:34.051:41.55
top 30.7%225 / 941
3×3 one-handed23.8629.75
top 31.1%495 / 1,770
3×3 Fewest Moves38 moves
top 40.9%124 / 366
Megaminx1:51.872:21.90
top 41.4%279 / 998
6×63:24.333:32.37
top 52.4%149 / 343
7×75:07.655:26.73
top 53.1%127 / 270
3×3 blindfolded3:56.30
early days — 3 solves175 / 310
Square-11:02.84
top 85.4%611 / 759

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

Svetlye Gory Open 2017: 29.73MPEI Open 2017: 18.64Moscow Winter Cubing 2018: 18.57HSE Open 2018: 19.20YJ Fest 2018: 20.76Svetlye Gory Open 2018: 16.76SPB Summer 2018: 15.89MPEI Open 2018: 15.79CCC Open Moscow 2019: 15.89YJ Fest Moscow 2019: 14.60MPEI Open 2019: 13.22Ivanovo Cuber Cup 2019: 14.49Volga Nizhny Novgorod 2020: 16.0113.2229.732 Sep 201729 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.22 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.72 away.

Targets move as he improves.