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Nikolay Libelt

3×3 · top 11.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2018 · 2018LIBE01

Nikolay Libelt has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.38, set at Crystal Open 2018, puts him in the top 11.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 503rd in Russia. Across 3 competitions since January 2018, he has put 81 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.70 in January 2018 to 11.38, a 23% improvement. Nikolay has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 11.7% of 284,439 all-time
11.38
signature single · Crystal Open 2018
81
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×311.3812.87
top 11.7%503 / 6,475
2×22.784.51
top 11.8%403 / 4,782
3×3 one-handed18.7324.00
top 17.0%253 / 1,770
Pyraminx6.2211.70
top 21.6%719 / 3,777
5×51:59.192:25.23
top 48.8%404 / 941
4×41:15.10
early days — 1 solve911 / 2,080
Clock18.3424.83
top 59.8%351 / 714
Skewb11.2915.31
top 62.4%1,184 / 2,264
3×3 Fewest Moves56 moves
early days — 1 solve337 / 366

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

Moscow Winter Cubing 2018: 14.70CFCTC Open 2018: 13.13Crystal Open 2018: 11.3811.3814.704 Jan 201818 Aug 2018

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 1.38 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.78 away.

Targets move as he improves.