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Maksym Poliakov (Максим Поляков)

3×3 · top 14.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2016 · 2016POLI01

Maksym Poliakov (Максим Поляков) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.29, set at Fresh Cube 2017, puts him in the top 14.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 398th in Ukraine. Across 4 competitions since July 2016, he has put 109 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 9% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 3 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.40 in July 2016 to 12.29, a 25% improvement. Maksym has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 14.9% of 284,439 all-time
12.29
signature single · Fresh Cube 2017
109
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
3×312.2917.34
top 14.9%398 / 2,868
5×51:25.521:38.78
top 23.7%114 / 425
4×453.0957.85
top 28.5%249 / 867
2×24.228.06
top 29.3%541 / 1,894
Skewb8.5511.09
top 45.4%386 / 884
3×3 Fewest Moves41 moves
early days — 1 solve113 / 222
7×75:13.415:26.18
early days — 3 solves83 / 135
6×63:54.624:06.41
early days — 3 solves116 / 169

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

Cowboys Summer 2016: 16.40Just Lviv It 2017: 18.63Fresh Cube 2017: 12.29Kharkiv Cube Day 2017: 18.6912.2918.692 Jul 20161 Oct 2017

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.29 away.
  • A sub-1:00 5×5 single — 2,252 people have one; it is 25.52 away.

Targets move as he improves.