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Nikita Makarenko (Никита Макаренко)

3×3 · top 4.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2018 · 2018MAKA06

Nikita Makarenko (Никита Макаренко) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.00, set at Cubing Kazakhstan Nationals 2019, puts him in the top 4.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 69th in Kazakhstan. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since June 2018, he has put 286 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 52% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His Pyraminx best has come down from 7.50 in June 2018 to 3.47, a 54% improvement. Nikita has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.9% of 284,439 all-time
9.00
signature single · Cubing Kazakhstan Nationals 2019
286
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingKazakhstan
3×39.0011.63
top 4.9%69 / 1,315
Pyraminx3.476.34
top 5.3%37 / 803
2×22.373.70
top 7.7%72 / 976
Megaminx1:14.131:41.29
top 18.1%40 / 243
Skewb5.1410.42
top 19.3%74 / 474
4×453.0058.11
top 28.3%116 / 415
3×3 one-handed23.0529.17
top 28.9%110 / 330
5×52:00.152:10.07
top 49.3%99 / 216

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

Semey Open 2018: 7.50KSF Semey City 2018: 6.65KSF Ust-Kamenogorsk City 2019: 5.93KSF Almaty City 2019: 7.13Cubing Semey Open 2019: 3.47Economics Lyceum Cube 2019: 6.11Cubing Kazakhstan Nationals 2019: 7.133.477.508 Jun 201826 Oct 2019

Best single per competition, Pyraminx. 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 — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.00 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.47 away.

Targets move as he improves.