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Lev Golub (Лев Голуб)

3×3 · top 0.079% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2014 · 2014HOLU01

Lev Golub (Лев Голуб) has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 4.77, set at U24 Tetiana Day Kyiv 2025, puts him in the top 0.079% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3rd in Ukraine. Until November 2016, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 124 competitions since March 2014, he has put 8,295 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 52.16 in March 2014 to 4.77, a 91% improvement. Lev has entered 124 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.079% of 284,439 all-time
4.77
signature single · U24 Tetiana Day Kyiv 2025
8,295
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
3×34.776.44
top 0.079%3 / 2,868
Skewb1.202.38
top 0.13%2 / 884
3×3 one-handed8.0010.70
top 0.21%3 / 755
2×20.851.61
top 0.29%3 / 1,894
Pyraminx1.482.70
top 0.39%5 / 1,471
4×425.5528.42
top 0.85%9 / 867
5×546.5855.40
top 0.94%3 / 425
Megaminx39.8643.66
top 1.6%11 / 424
Clock3.544.51
top 1.6%3 / 347
Square-16.969.01
top 1.7%5 / 302
3×3 Fewest Moves23 moves28.33
top 3.0%10 / 222
6×61:42.741:52.66
top 4.8%8 / 169
7×72:40.452:58.87
top 5.6%9 / 135
3×3 blindfolded36.9254.65
top 6.0%9 / 177
3×3 Multi-Blind10 of 10 cubes · 56:26—
top 17.9%11 / 67
4×4 blindfolded8:15.15—
top 45.5%14 / 27
5×5 blindfolded26:40.00—
early days — 1 solve12 / 17

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

Kharkiv Special 2014: 52.16Kharkiv Cube Day 2014: 23.99Beit Dan Open 2014: 15.42Kharkiv Winter 2014: 15.81Kharkiv Special 2015: 13.93Cowboys Summer 2015: 10.99Dnepr Skips 2015: 11.40Beit Dan Open 2015: 11.26Kharkiv Special 2016: 9.71Dnepr Cube Days 2016: 9.26Slavonic Gymnasium Open 2016: 7.87Cowboys Summer 2016: 9.77European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 8.44Kharkiv Cube Day 2016: 9.24Ukrainian Nationals 2016: 9.51Belgorod Open 2016: 8.45Just Lviv It 2017: 8.29White City Cubing 2017: 8.23Fresh Cube 2017: 8.53World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 9.03Ukrainian Nationals 2017: 7.96Kharkiv Cube Day 2017: 7.54Belgorod Open 2017: 8.44Dnepr Skips 2017: 8.06Lviv Cube Cup 2017: 7.64Kharkiv Winter 2017: 7.46Dnepr Never Fails 2018: 6.33Lviv Spring Days 2018: 6.64Dnipro Cube Generation 2018: 7.84Ukrainian Open 2018: 7.73White City Cubing 2018: 8.23Uzhgorod Summer 2018: 7.41Mariupol Open 2018: 6.63Kharkiv Open 2018: 7.37Belgorod Open 2018: 7.20Ukrainian Nationals 2018: 6.87Smart Cube Fest 2018: 7.38CCC Open Moscow 2019: 7.76Zhytomyr Cube Battle 2019: 6.47CCC Qualification Voronezh 2019: 7.12Horse City 2019: 7.61Vinnytsia Cube Cup 2019: 7.15Kharkiv Open 2019: 6.42Ukrainian Nationals 2019: 7.12Belgorod Open 2019: 7.20Dnepr Puzzles Fest 2019: 7.18Smartcube Fest Kyiv 2019: 6.01Cubes Masters Zhytomyr 2019: 6.64MPEI Open 2019: 7.37Frankivsk Open 2019: 6.75CCC Qualification SPB 2020: 6.05Cubes Masters Zhytomyr 2021: 5.98Horse City 2021: 7.11Kharkiv Cubefall 2021: 7.00U24 Open September 2022: 6.13U24 Open October 2022: 6.33U24 Open November 2022: 6.02U24 Nationals 2022: 5.54U24 Tetiana Day 2023: 6.63Ternopil Science Cubing 2023: 6.95Nikita Kovalchuk Memorial 2023: 6.19Ukrainian Open 2023: 6.18U24 Globus Open July 2023: 6.05That is Lviv 2023: 6.01Podolian Open 2023: 6.10U24 Pyramania Open 2023: 6.48Ukrainian Nationals 2023: 6.16U24 Tetiana Day 2024: 6.67Chernivtsi Open 2024: 6.71Podolian Open 2024: 6.31Mriy Diy Cubing Lviv 2024: 6.49Kyiv NxN Summer 2024: 6.00Uzhhorod Open 2024: 6.24Kyiv Blind Side 2024: 5.83Ukrainian Nationals 2024: 6.42Kyiv Side Events Winter 2024: 5.95U24 Tetiana Day Kyiv 2025: 4.77Kyiv Big & Blind Winter 2025: 5.70Chernivtsi Open 2025: 6.28Ukrainian Open 2025: 6.14MriyDiy Cubing Lviv 2025: 6.97Kyiv Blind Side Summer 2025: 5.72Kyiv NxN Summer 2025: 6.59Kyiv Side Events Autumn 2025: 5.77Ukrainian Nationals 2025: 6.29Kyiv Blind Side Autumn 2025: 6.11U24 Tetiana Day Kyiv 2026: 5.91Kyiv Blind Side Winter 2026: 6.51River Mall Kyiv 2026: 6.11Kyiv NxN Spring 2026: 5.77Ekvator Rivne Open 2026: 6.16Twist 'N Turn Kyiv 2026: 6.52Victoria Gardens Kyiv 2026: 6.24Victoria Gardens Lviv 2026: 5.88Vinnytsia Open 2026: 6.064.7752.1622 Mar 20141 Aug 2026

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-4 3×3 single — 38 people have one; it is 0.77 away.
  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.20 away.

Targets move as he improves.