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Maksim Vorobyev

2×2 · top 0.87% of 186,767 all-time · competing since November 2011 · 2011VORO03

Maksim Vorobyev has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.14, set at Moscow South-West Open 2015, puts him in the top 0.87% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 29th in Russia. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since November 2011, he has put 795 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 71% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 35.41 in November 2011 to 6.84, an 81% improvement. Maksim has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.87% of 186,767 all-time
1.14
signature single · Moscow South-West Open 2015
795
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 71% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
2×21.142.38
top 0.87%29 / 4,782
3×36.848.92
top 1.2%26 / 6,475
3×3 one-handed12.9414.72
top 4.3%52 / 1,770
Pyraminx4.115.84
top 8.2%227 / 3,777
4×441.1946.63
top 13.5%190 / 2,080
Skewb6.286.80
top 28.0%446 / 2,264
5×51:36.911:44.02
top 33.0%256 / 941
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves
top 37.3%109 / 366
6×63:45.554:03.49
top 60.7%179 / 343
Megaminx2:57.88
top 73.5%608 / 998
7×77:06.69
early days — 3 solves209 / 270

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

MPEI Open 2011: 35.41Moscow North-West Open 2012: 13.19MPEI Open 2012: 12.25Kharkiv Winter 2012: 13.15Moscow North-West Open Winter 2013: 11.77CCC Winter Open 2014: 9.05Tula Open 2014: 8.77CCC Autumn Open 2014: 9.90MPEI Open 2014: 8.52Moscow Spring Open 2015: 8.38CCC End of Summer 2015: 8.55Moscow South-West Open 2015: 8.97MPEI Open 2015: 9.43CCC Spring Open 2016: 7.97MPEI Open 2017: 6.84MPEI Open 2019: 7.896.8435.4126 Nov 201122 Nov 2019

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 0.14 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.84 away.

Targets move as he improves.