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Maksym Zharov (Максим Жаров)

3×3 · top 0.68% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2014 · 2014ZHAR01

Maksym Zharov (Максим Жаров) has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.29, set at Ukrainian Open 2018, puts him in the top 0.68% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 22nd in Ukraine. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since May 2014, he has put 1,175 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 50% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.98 in May 2014 to 6.29, a 52% improvement. Maksym has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.68% of 284,439 all-time
6.29
signature single · Ukrainian Open 2018
1,175
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 50% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
3×36.297.99
top 0.68%22 / 2,868
3×3 one-handed9.9212.19
top 1.0%9 / 755
4×433.4140.48
top 5.3%52 / 867
2×22.213.67
top 6.3%123 / 1,894
5×51:20.101:41.14
top 19.2%91 / 425
3×3 Fewest Moves32 moves36.67
top 20.4%41 / 222
Pyraminx6.5911.47
top 24.6%416 / 1,471
Skewb8.7613.39
top 46.8%393 / 884
Megaminx2:54.643:46.54
top 72.1%287 / 424

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

Ukrainian Nationals 2014: 12.98Winter West Ukraine 2015: 10.73Ukrainian Open 2015: 9.52Skips in Brest 2015: 9.09Dnepr Skips 2015: 9.73Beit Dan Open 2015: 9.62Anatoliy Moroz Open 2015: 7.90Kharkiv Special 2016: 9.23Lviv Spring Days 2016: 10.09Slavonic Gymnasium Open 2016: 9.06Cowboys Summer 2016: 8.31Full Steps in Brest 2016: 8.45Just Lviv It 2017: 6.58Kharkiv Cube Day 2017: 7.09Belgorod Open 2017: 7.97Dnepr Skips 2017: 7.51Cube Star 2018: 6.87Ukrainian Open 2018: 6.29Ukrainian Nationals 2018: 8.35Smart Cube Fest 2018: 7.39Lviv Spring Days 2019: 6.90Ukrainian Open 2019: 7.23Smartcube Fest Kyiv 2019: 7.146.2912.9810 May 20142 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.29 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 1.92 away.

Targets move as he improves.