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Maksim Melnik

3×3 · top 7.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2013 · 2013MELN01

Maksim Melnik has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.03, set at SPB Championship 2017, puts him in the top 7.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 290th in Russia. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since September 2013, he has put 735 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.78 in September 2013 to 10.03, a 54% improvement. Maksim has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.5% of 284,439 all-time
10.03
signature single · SPB Championship 2017
735
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×310.0314.80
top 7.5%290 / 6,475
2×23.215.47
top 16.7%616 / 4,782
4×448.9156.71
top 23.3%343 / 2,080
3×3 one-handed21.3928.64
top 24.3%388 / 1,770
Pyraminx9.0612.13
top 45.4%1,666 / 3,777
Skewb8.5913.32
top 45.6%820 / 2,264
5×51:55.192:00.14
top 46.1%371 / 941
3×3 Fewest Moves43 moves47.33
top 59.0%198 / 366
Megaminx2:34.872:39.20
top 63.6%481 / 998
3×3 blindfolded4:16.91
early days — 2 solves193 / 310
Clock24.3026.44
top 75.4%478 / 714
7×76:35.967:42.05
early days — 3 solves183 / 270
6×64:38.895:02.22
top 77.0%244 / 343
Square-11:09.64
early days — 1 solve647 / 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

Saint Petersburg Open 2013: 21.78Saint Petersburg Open 2014: 13.58Saint Petersburg Summer Open 2015: 13.66Saint Petersburg Autumn Open 2015: 14.22Saint Petersburg Welcome To 2016: 13.37SPB Spring Open 2016: 14.38SPB Championship 2016: 13.82SPB Winter 2016: 12.65Cuberussia in SPB 2017: 13.37SPB Easter Open 2017: 13.30LETI Open 2017: 12.39Estonian Open 2017: 12.44SPB Championship 2017: 10.03MPEI Open 2017: 14.13Muffin Winter 2017: 12.40CFCTC Open 2018: 13.09SPB Island 2018: 11.62SPB Summer 2018: 13.86Welcome to Academy 2018: 12.77SPB Muffin 2020: 13.5010.0321.7814 Sep 201314 Mar 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.03 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.21 away.

Targets move as he improves.