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Orson Kovalev

Skewb · top 0.56% of 73,281 all-time · competing since July 2023 · 2023KOVA06

Orson Kovalev has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 1.59, set at Spanish Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.56% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6th in Russia. Until October 2015, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since July 2023, he has put 893 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.34 in July 2023 to 10.46, a 64% improvement. Orson has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 0.56% of 73,281 all-time
1.59
signature single · Spanish Championship 2025
893
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
Skewb1.596.59
top 0.56%6 / 2,264
2×21.753.47
top 3.3%109 / 4,782
Pyraminx3.024.71
top 3.7%80 / 3,777
Clock5.436.13
top 5.5%16 / 714
3×310.4611.45
top 8.8%354 / 6,475
Square-115.5818.28
top 17.7%82 / 759
4×452.3659.84
top 27.6%444 / 2,080
Megaminx1:29.371:33.15
top 27.8%168 / 998
3×3 one-handed23.2824.68
top 29.5%472 / 1,770
5×52:21.212:34.01
top 61.6%527 / 941

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

Piera Open 2023: 29.34Parets Open 2024: 23.34CubingVic 2024: 20.10El Masnou Open 2024: 18.84Vilafranca Open 2024: 15.73Santpedor Open 2024: 15.49Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 15.02Lleida Open 2024: 12.92Zaragoza Open 2024: 13.05Fires de Girona 2024: 14.18Barcelona Open 2024: 14.88Parets Open 2025: 14.76CubingVic 2025: 14.03Santpedor Open 2025: 12.53Girona Summer Open 2025: 14.68Minyons de Terrassa Open 2025: 12.18Tarraco Open 2025: 14.05Spanish Championship 2025: 12.51Vilafranca Open 2026: 10.46Parets Open 2026: 11.33GAN CubingVic 2026: 11.28Santpedor Open 2026: 12.8310.4629.3429 Jul 202320 Jun 2026

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-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.59 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.75 away.

Targets move as he improves.