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Nikita Kovalchuk (Нікіта Ковальчук)

3×3 · top 0.43% of 288,433 all-time · competing since May 2015 · 2015KOVA07

Nikita Kovalchuk (Нікіта Ковальчук) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.89, set at Ukrainian Nationals 2018, puts him in the top 0.43% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 15th in Ukraine. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 41 competitions since May 2015, he has put 2,802 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 58% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.06 in May 2015 to 5.89, a 61% improvement. Nikita has entered 41 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.43% of 288,433 all-time
5.89
signature single · Ukrainian Nationals 2018
2,802
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
3×35.897.86
top 0.43%15 / 2,889
3×3 one-handed10.5912.96
top 1.5%11 / 765
4×427.5629.96
top 1.6%16 / 878
5×553.6158.84
top 2.9%14 / 431
Megaminx48.2453.53
top 4.4%20 / 425
2×22.052.85
top 5.1%107 / 1,911
Square-19.5711.48
top 5.4%15 / 307
7×72:51.532:52.99
top 8.3%13 / 140
6×61:55.262:04.77
top 9.3%17 / 173
Pyraminx4.526.52
top 10.3%182 / 1,484
3×3 Fewest Moves30 moves34.67
top 14.8%35 / 224
Clock11.1614.42
top 30.7%107 / 354
Skewb7.169.54
top 35.0%289 / 896
3×3 blindfolded3:44.18—
top 64.3%109 / 177

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

Ukrainian Open 2015: 15.06Dnepr Skips 2015: 12.20Anatoliy Moroz Open 2015: 11.48Kharkiv Special 2016: 9.75Lviv Spring Days 2016: 10.54Slavonic Gymnasium Open 2016: 10.03Cowboys Summer 2016: 9.33Kharkiv Cube Day 2016: 10.52Ukrainian Nationals 2016: 9.43Krivbass Open 2016: 9.29MPEI Open 2016: 10.11Just Lviv It 2017: 9.27Smart Cube Open 2017: 7.85Odessa Open 2017: 9.06Ukrainian Nationals 2017: 8.09Kharkiv Cube Day 2017: 7.56Belgorod Open 2017: 8.25Dnepr Skips 2017: 8.48Kharkiv Winter 2017: 7.67Dnepr Never Fails 2018: 7.87Cube Star 2018: 8.71Lviv Spring Days 2018: 7.53Dnipro Cube Generation 2018: 7.98Ukrainian Open 2018: 7.08White City Cubing 2018: 7.03Uzhgorod Summer 2018: 6.89WCA European Championship 2018: 8.02Mariupol Open 2018: 7.53Kharkiv Open 2018: 6.95Zhytomyr Open 2018: 5.94Belgorod Open 2018: 7.64Ukrainian Nationals 2018: 5.89Smart Cube Fest 2018: 7.74MPEI Open 2018: 6.65Vinnytsia Open 2019: 7.16Lviv Spring Days 2019: 5.99CCC Open Moscow 2019: 7.69Zhytomyr Cube Battle 2019: 7.505.8915.0629 May 201510 May 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-5 3×3 single — 355 people have one; it is 0.89 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 800 people have one; it is 0.59 away.

Targets move as he improves.