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Leonid Zakharov (Леонид Захаров)

2×2 · top 3.0% of 186,767 all-time · competing since January 2019 · 2019ZAKH01

Leonid Zakharov (Леонид Захаров) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.68, set at CCC Qualification Barnaul 2019, puts him in the top 3.0% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 103rd in Russia. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since January 2019, he has put 258 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.49 in January 2019 to 9.40, a 43% improvement. Leonid has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 3.0% of 186,767 all-time
1.68
signature single · CCC Qualification Barnaul 2019
258
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
2×21.683.93
top 3.0%103 / 4,782
3×39.4013.02
top 5.8%205 / 6,475
Square-111.9816.22
top 9.9%44 / 759
Pyraminx5.327.21
top 15.2%482 / 3,777
4×447.1952.43
top 21.1%297 / 2,080
Clock10.4113.83
top 27.1%127 / 714
3×3 one-handed23.8031.48
top 30.9%490 / 1,770

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

YJ Fest Siberia 2019: 16.49Novosibirsk Planetarium Open 2019: 12.55CCC Qualification Barnaul 2019: 12.89NSK Cubing Fest 2019: 13.70Novosibirsk Tech Library 2019: 13.05Tomsk Cube Days 2019: 9.40Siberia Open 2020: 12.889.4016.4925 Jan 201929 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.68 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.40 away.

Targets move as he improves.