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Nikita Belyi

3×3 · top 4.3% of 288,433 all-time · competing since April 2016 · 2016BELY02

Nikita Belyi has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.73, set at Minyons de Terrassa Open 2025, puts him in the top 4.3% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 140th in Russia. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since April 2016, he has put 808 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 53% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.35 in April 2016 to 8.73, a 35% improvement. Nikita has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.3% of 288,433 all-time
8.73
signature single · Minyons de Terrassa Open 2025
808
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×38.7310.30
top 4.3%140 / 6,485
Megaminx48.9755.23
top 4.7%28 / 999
3×3 one-handed13.6015.80
top 5.5%71 / 1,772
2×22.483.93
top 8.8%283 / 4,788
4×437.1443.17
top 8.9%106 / 2,085
5×51:10.001:16.16
top 11.7%59 / 942
Pyraminx4.888.07
top 12.5%364 / 3,784
3×3 Fewest Moves32 moves—
early days — 1 solve52 / 367
7×73:33.553:56.25
top 21.0%43 / 271
6×62:24.912:37.74
top 23.2%50 / 343
Square-130.5340.50
top 50.4%302 / 760
3×3 blindfolded5:56.92—
early days — 1 solve254 / 310

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

Novosibirsk Planetarium Open 2016: 13.35Novosibirsk Planetarium Open 2017: 11.55Fires de Girona 2024: 10.69Spanish Championship 2024: 9.89Tarragona Open 2024: 10.83Parets Open 2025: 10.22CubingVic 2025: 10.57Granollers Open 2025: 9.43Girona Summer Open 2025: 9.57Minyons de Terrassa Open 2025: 8.73Tarraco Open 2025: 9.88Spanish Championship 2025: 9.42Vilafranca Open 2026: 9.14Parets Open 2026: 10.59GAN CubingVic 2026: 9.32Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 9.21Ciu La Mancha Open 2026: 9.29Vilajuga Vilafranca 2026: 9.088.7313.3530 Apr 20163 Oct 2026

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 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.73 away.
  • A sub-40 Megaminx single — 567 people have one; it is 8.97 away.

Targets move as he improves.