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Lev Aronov

3×3 · top 2.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2018 · 2018ARON02

Lev Aronov has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.82, set at Cubing Ekat Open 2021, puts him in the top 2.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 75th in Russia. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since January 2018, he has put 623 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 58% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.91 in January 2018 to 7.82, a 48% improvement. Lev has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.5% of 284,439 all-time
7.82
signature single · Cubing Ekat Open 2021
623
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×37.8210.53
top 2.5%75 / 6,475
Square-18.4013.45
top 3.6%9 / 759
Pyraminx3.888.44
top 7.1%188 / 3,777
3×3 one-handed14.8317.19
top 7.8%108 / 1,770
2×22.653.74
top 10.4%350 / 4,782
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves
early days — 1 solve30 / 366
Skewb4.817.39
top 16.7%251 / 2,264
4×445.6157.98
top 19.1%267 / 2,080
Megaminx1:25.232:02.35
top 25.1%146 / 998
Clock17.7820.93
top 58.1%337 / 714

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

IQber - PB time 2018: 14.91Ural Winter 2018: 14.63Ural Open 2018: 11.54Ural Winter 2019: 11.90EkatCube Spring 2019: 12.42Ural Spring 2019: 13.75Eka Cube Days 2019: 10.22Ural Autumn 2019: 10.80CCC Qualification Tyumen 2019: 10.65Eka Cube Winter 2020: 10.42Ural Winter 2020: 10.46Ural Autumn 2020: 8.70Ural Spring 2021: 10.65Tyumen Happy Saturday 2021: 9.11Cubing Ekat Open 2021: 7.827.8214.9113 Jan 201811 Sep 2021

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.82 away.
  • A sub-8 Square-1 single — 766 people have one; it is 0.40 away.

Targets move as he improves.