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Nail Safin

3×3 · top 11.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2017 · 2017SAFI02

Nail Safin has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.42, set at One LY Cube 2018, puts him in the top 11.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 512th in Russia. Across 5 competitions since August 2017, he has put 102 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 91% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Nail has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 11.9% of 284,439 all-time
11.42
signature single · One LY Cube 2018
102
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×311.4213.04
top 11.9%512 / 6,475
2×23.665.55
top 22.2%858 / 4,782
4×41:11.191:20.47
top 48.0%840 / 2,080

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

Udmurtia Open 2017: 12.64Chak-chak cubing in Kazan 2017: 11.74One LY Cube 2018: 11.42Chelny Open 2018: 12.15Chelny Summer 2019: 11.4911.4212.6412 Aug 201724 Aug 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.42 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.66 away.

Targets move as he improves.