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Modest Podzolkin

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 1.0% of 12,294 all-time · competing since May 2017 · 2017PODZ01

Modest Podzolkin has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 20 moves, set at Kyiv Blind Side Autumn 2025, puts him in the top 1.0% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in Ukraine. Across 79 competitions since May 2017, he has put 1,383 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 85% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.46 in May 2017 to 12.53, a 63% improvement. Modest has entered 79 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 1.0% of 12,294 all-time
20 moves
signature single · Kyiv Blind Side Autumn 2025
1,383
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 85% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
3×3 Fewest Moves20 moves23.00
top 1.0%4 / 222
3×3 blindfolded46.6756.45
top 8.8%17 / 177
3×312.5318.05
top 15.7%418 / 2,868
Pyraminx5.828.01
top 18.7%328 / 1,471
Skewb5.089.91
top 18.8%163 / 884
3×3 Multi-Blind9 of 9 cubes · 57:21—
top 21.1%15 / 67
2×23.935.37
top 25.6%479 / 1,894
Megaminx1:28.581:36.87
top 27.3%110 / 424
4×452.5259.71
top 27.8%244 / 867
3×3 one-handed24.1729.23
top 32.0%257 / 755
5×51:37.951:44.14
top 33.8%165 / 425
Clock12.2714.14
top 36.2%123 / 347
7×74:24.234:40.63
top 39.2%55 / 135
6×63:04.103:10.90
top 43.0%81 / 169
4×4 blindfolded8:59.16—
top 51.3%17 / 27
Square-136.5151.26
top 60.6%189 / 302
5×5 blindfolded31:40.00—
early days — 2 solves16 / 17

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

Smart Cube Open 2017: 33.46Ukrainian Open 2018: 20.62Zhytomyr Open 2018: 22.24Smart Cube Fest 2018: 24.14KMG Spring 2019: 19.41Zhytomyr Cube Battle 2019: 17.54White City Cubing 2019: 18.86Ukrainian Open 2019: 16.88Juan Manuel Zafra Open 2019: 17.79Vinnytsia Cube Cup 2019: 18.00Ukrainian Nationals 2019: 16.15Monnem City Cubing 2019: 18.17Nordic Championship 2019: 18.51Smartcube Fest Kyiv 2019: 16.21Malta Open 2019: 17.98Moldova Open 2020: 18.25Polish Speedcubing Tour Biłgoraj 2020: 19.55Nicosia Cubers 2020: 16.48Turkish Summer 2020: 18.81Cubes Masters Zhytomyr 2021: 15.51Horse City 2021: 16.63Kharkiv Cubefall 2021: 15.90U24 Open September 2022: 15.82U24 Open October 2022: 16.46U24 Open November 2022: 15.69U24 Nationals 2022: 16.73U24 Tetiana Day 2023: 17.12Nikita Kovalchuk Memorial 2023: 12.53Ukrainian Open 2023: 16.60Kyiv Blind Side 2024: 15.2612.5333.4613 May 201721 Sep 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-40 3×3 blindfolded single — 826 people have one; it is 6.67 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.53 away.

Targets move as he improves.