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Nikita Grytsenko (Микита Гриценко)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 0.17% of 12,294 all-time · competing since July 2018 · 2018GRYT01

Nikita Grytsenko (Микита Гриценко) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 18 moves, set at Rubik's Irish Championship FMC 2026, puts him in the top 0.17% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in Ukraine. Across 28 competitions since July 2018, he has put 1,318 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.40 in July 2018 to 7.43, a 73% improvement. Nikita has entered 28 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 0.17% of 12,294 all-time
18 moves
signature single · Rubik's Irish Championship FMC 2026
1,318
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
3×3 Fewest Moves18 moves22.00
top 0.17%1 / 222
Skewb1.312.46
top 0.22%3 / 884
Pyraminx1.883.70
top 0.95%16 / 1,471
3×37.439.57
top 1.9%59 / 2,868
3×3 one-handed11.1314.77
top 2.0%15 / 755
2×21.732.87
top 3.2%71 / 1,894
4×432.1937.89
top 4.3%41 / 867
5×558.801:04.57
top 4.9%25 / 425
Clock5.266.50
top 5.1%19 / 347
Square-112.6015.54
top 11.1%31 / 302
6×62:14.592:24.71
top 17.7%31 / 169
Megaminx1:17.971:27.00
top 20.5%85 / 424
7×73:53.254:21.47
top 28.3%40 / 135
3×3 blindfolded1:50.453:15.00
top 30.1%45 / 177
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 15:15—
early days — 1 solve39 / 67

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

Mariupol Open 2018: 27.40Smartcube Fest Kyiv 2019: 16.76German Nationals 2022: 10.04Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2022: 9.90Cork Spring 2023: 8.64Solving by the Shannon 2023: 8.69Don't Fail Kinsale 2023: 10.71Rebel County Cubing 2024: 8.93Cork Spring 2024: 8.67Rubik's Irish Championship 2024: 7.45Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 9.47Dublin Winter Solving 2025: 9.41Termonfeckin Fast 2025: 8.94Solving by the Barrow 2025: 7.79Leopardstown Cube Races 2025: 8.83Dublin Pick 'N' Mix 2026: 9.76UCD Cube Days 2026: 7.43Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 8.487.4327.4027 Jul 201816 Jul 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.

  • Ben Timmons — met in 252 rounds, finished ahead 156 times
  • William Carey — met in 198 rounds, finished ahead 102 times
  • Ronan Finke — met in 190 rounds, finished ahead 132 times

Next targets

  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.31 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.88 away.

Targets move as he improves.