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Nikolay Vasilyev

3×3 one-handed · top 4.3% of 73,695 all-time · competing since October 2015 · 2015VASI02

Nikolay Vasilyev has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 12.91, set at Welcome to Academy 2018, puts him in the top 4.3% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 51st in Russia. Until January 2010, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 29 competitions since October 2015, he has put 1,686 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.86 in October 2015 to 9.50, a 36% improvement. Nikolay has entered 29 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 4.3% of 73,695 all-time
12.91
signature single · Welcome to Academy 2018
1,686
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×3 one-handed12.9121.59
top 4.3%51 / 1,770
3×39.5011.09
top 6.1%215 / 6,475
2×22.234.01
top 6.5%208 / 4,782
Megaminx54.341:01.33
top 7.1%39 / 998
Pyraminx4.357.18
top 9.4%262 / 3,777
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves36.00
top 12.2%30 / 366
Skewb4.337.29
top 13.2%196 / 2,264
4×441.4747.61
top 13.9%198 / 2,080
5×51:20.191:27.65
top 19.3%123 / 941
Square-120.0327.65
top 28.1%144 / 759
Clock10.6612.63
top 28.4%131 / 714
6×62:40.192:57.45
top 30.8%69 / 343
7×74:04.174:15.03
top 32.3%64 / 270
3×3 blindfolded2:44.99—
top 48.1%124 / 310
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 11:06—
early days — 1 solve61 / 98

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

Saint Petersburg Autumn Open 2015: 14.86Saint Petersburg Welcome To 2016: 13.65CCC Spring Open 2016: 14.12SPB Spring Open 2016: 13.67SPB Championship 2016: 13.13SPB Winter 2016: 13.11Cuberussia in SPB 2017: 13.99SPB Easter Open 2017: 12.83To The Moon 2017: 12.25LETI Open 2017: 9.50Svetlye Gory Open 2017: 12.15Kursk Open 2017: 10.13SPB Championship 2017: 11.89Muffin Winter 2017: 10.38CFCTC Open 2018: 11.44SPB Island 2018: 13.24Svetlye Gory Open 2018: 11.32SPB Summer 2018: 10.16Kursk Open 2018: 10.74Speedcubes Fest in SPB 2018: 10.32Welcome to Academy 2018: 11.58MPEI Open 2018: 11.08SPB Muffin Winter 2019: 11.27Astrakhan Spring Open 2019: 10.47Luga Open 2019: 10.76SPB Muffin 2020: 9.53SPB Muffin Mini 2021: 9.739.5014.8624 Oct 20152 May 2021

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-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 0.91 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.50 away.

Targets move as he improves.