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Maksym Yeli (Максим Єлі)

3×3 one-handed · top 0.23% of 73,695 all-time · competing since March 2014 · 2014YELI01

Maksym Yeli (Максим Єлі) has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 8.14, set at Kharkiv Open 2019, puts him in the top 0.23% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in Ukraine. Until May 2015, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 46 competitions since March 2014, he has put 3,433 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.01 in March 2014 to 5.87, an 82% improvement. Maksym has entered 46 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.23% of 73,695 all-time
8.14
signature single · Kharkiv Open 2019
3,433
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
3×3 one-handed8.1413.23
top 0.23%4 / 755
3×35.877.49
top 0.41%14 / 2,868
4×424.6128.64
top 0.61%7 / 867
5×547.3752.91
top 1.1%4 / 425
2×21.332.79
top 1.5%24 / 1,894
7×72:21.162:24.66
top 2.5%4 / 135
Megaminx44.5053.50
top 2.9%14 / 424
6×61:36.561:42.88
top 3.2%4 / 169
Pyraminx3.174.39
top 4.2%69 / 1,471
Skewb3.265.23
top 6.4%50 / 884
Square-116.6723.25
top 20.2%54 / 302
Clock10.3612.61
top 26.8%88 / 347
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves37.00
top 33.6%78 / 222

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

Dnepr Cube Day 2014: 33.01Oleksandriia Open 2014: 14.70Dnepr Cube Day 2015: 11.02Dnepr Skips 2015: 10.20Dnepr Cube Days 2016: 10.11Lviv Spring Days 2016: 10.03Slavonic Gymnasium Open 2016: 9.48Kharkiv Cube Day 2016: 8.86Ukrainian Nationals 2016: 8.38Just Lviv It 2017: 9.16White City Cubing 2017: 8.17Smart Cube Open 2017: 7.75Odessa Open 2017: 7.93Ukrainian Nationals 2017: 8.87Kharkiv Cube Day 2017: 8.83Dnepr Skips 2017: 8.17Lviv Cube Cup 2017: 8.33Dnepr Never Fails 2018: 7.36Cube Star 2018: 7.69Lviv Spring Days 2018: 7.29Dnipro Cube Generation 2018: 7.24Ukrainian Open 2018: 6.42White City Cubing 2018: 7.23WCA European Championship 2018: 7.55Mariupol Open 2018: 7.39Ukrainian Nationals 2018: 6.46Smart Cube Fest 2018: 6.94Lviv Spring Days 2019: 7.13Zhytomyr Cube Battle 2019: 6.92Ukrainian Open 2019: 7.25Horse City 2019: 8.05Vinnytsia Cube Cup 2019: 7.60Kharkiv Open 2019: 7.91Ukrainian Nationals 2019: 6.91Dnepr Puzzles Fest 2019: 7.73CCC Qualification SPB 2020: 6.52Cubes Masters Zhytomyr 2021: 7.28Horse City 2021: 7.48Kharkiv Cubefall 2021: 7.26U24 Open September 2022: 5.87U24 Open October 2022: 7.08Nikita Kovalchuk Memorial 2023: 6.86Kyiv NxN Summer 2024: 6.925.8733.0115 Mar 201417 Aug 2024

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 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 0.14 away.
  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.87 away.

Targets move as he improves.