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Mikhail Kopylov (Михаил Копылов)

3×3 · top 2.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2018 · 2018KOPY01

Mikhail Kopylov (Михаил Копылов) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.56, set at Tomsk Cube Days 2019, puts him in the top 2.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 56th in Russia. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since February 2018, he has put 682 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.35 in February 2018 to 7.56, a 33% improvement. Mikhail has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.1% of 284,439 all-time
7.56
signature single · Tomsk Cube Days 2019
682
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×37.568.65
top 2.1%56 / 6,475
3×3 one-handed11.6515.74
top 2.6%31 / 1,770
Megaminx43.7449.19
top 2.7%11 / 998
4×432.0735.72
top 4.2%40 / 2,080
Pyraminx3.213.97
top 4.4%101 / 3,777
2×22.152.79
top 5.8%188 / 4,782
Skewb3.525.42
top 7.9%111 / 2,264
Square-111.1013.26
top 8.2%30 / 759
Clock7.078.16
top 11.2%45 / 714
5×51:10.811:12.62
top 12.1%62 / 941
6×62:27.312:55.53
early days — 3 solves53 / 343
3×3 Fewest Moves38 moves
early days — 2 solves124 / 366

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

Krasnoyarsk Winter Open 2018: 11.35Novosibirsk Planetarium Open 2018: 9.61Baikal Cubing 2018: 7.91YJ Fest Siberia 2019: 7.97CCC Qualification Barnaul 2019: 8.48NSK Cubing Fest 2019: 8.01Novosibirsk Tech Library 2019: 8.09Tomsk Cube Days 2019: 7.56Siberia Open 2020: 7.84Barnaul Open 2021: 8.117.5611.353 Feb 201815 May 2021

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 1.56 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 1.65 away.

Targets move as he improves.