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Maksym Debelyi (Максим Дебелий)

3×3 · top 4.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2016 · 2016DEBE01

Maksym Debelyi (Максим Дебелий) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.77, set at Ukrainian Open 2019, puts him in the top 4.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 124th in Ukraine. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since May 2016, he has put 243 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.99 in May 2016 to 8.77, a 51% improvement. Maksym has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.3% of 284,439 all-time
8.77
signature single · Ukrainian Open 2019
243
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
3×38.7710.45
top 4.3%124 / 2,868
3×3 one-handed15.7717.81
top 9.7%90 / 755
Pyraminx4.7810.38
top 11.9%204 / 1,471
2×23.424.38
top 19.2%356 / 1,894
4×447.5154.20
top 21.5%191 / 867
Megaminx1:29.101:55.37
top 27.6%112 / 424
Skewb7.468.52
top 37.2%308 / 884

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

Slavonic Gymnasium Open 2016: 17.99Smart Cube Open 2017: 14.11Ukrainian Open 2018: 11.96Smart Cube Fest 2018: 13.37Ukrainian Open 2019: 8.77Smartcube Fest Kyiv 2019: 9.29U24 Open September 2022: 8.808.7717.9921 May 201618 Sep 2022

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.77 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 0.77 away.

Targets move as he improves.