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Oleksandr Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)

3×3 · top 30.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2011 · 2011KOVA01

Oleksandr Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко) has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 16.84, set at 100th Anniversary Meeting in Kyiv 2013, puts him in the top 30.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 789th in Ukraine. Across 7 competitions since May 2011, he has put 146 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.15 in May 2011 to 16.84, a 30% improvement. Oleksandr has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 30.5% of 284,439 all-time
16.84
signature single · 100th Anniversary Meeting in Kyiv 2013
146
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
3×316.8419.29
top 30.5%789 / 2,868
2×24.866.85
top 37.5%693 / 1,894
Pyraminx10.6614.98
top 58.0%914 / 1,471
3×3 one-handed43.0951.92
top 69.4%542 / 755
4×42:00.432:26.62
top 81.9%691 / 867

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

Kyiv Open 2011: 24.15Ukraine Open 2012: 18.71Kharkiv Winter 2012: 17.97100th Anniversary Meeting in Kyiv 2013: 16.84Ukrainian Open 2013: 18.29Ukrainian Nationals 2014: 17.47Ukrainian Open 2015: 17.2716.8424.1514 May 201129 May 2015

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 1.84 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.86 away.

Targets move as he improves.