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Ostap Bukatiuk (Остап Букатюк)

3×3 · top 0.41% of 288,433 all-time · competing since March 2025 · 2025BUKA01

Ostap Bukatiuk (Остап Букатюк) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.85, set at Victoria Gardens Kyiv 2026, puts him in the top 0.41% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 12th in Ukraine. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since March 2025, he has put 1,004 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 54% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.96 in March 2025 to 5.85, an 80% improvement. Ostap has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.41% of 288,433 all-time
5.85
signature single · Victoria Gardens Kyiv 2026
1,004
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
3×35.857.06
top 0.41%12 / 2,889
2×21.001.48
top 0.56%9 / 1,911
Pyraminx1.622.21
top 0.58%13 / 1,484
Skewb2.263.18
top 2.1%12 / 896
3×3 one-handed11.7216.03
top 2.7%20 / 765
4×431.6334.74
top 3.9%38 / 878
Megaminx52.841:02.05
top 6.5%30 / 425
5×51:02.811:09.97
top 7.2%36 / 431
Clock6.627.46
top 9.5%38 / 354
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves32.00
top 12.2%31 / 224
7×73:37.203:54.41
top 22.3%31 / 140
6×62:25.142:29.75
top 23.3%42 / 173
Square-127.2834.71
top 44.2%136 / 307

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

Chernivtsi Open 2025: 29.96Ukrainian Open 2025: 13.51MriyDiy Cubing Lviv 2025: 13.09Kyiv Blind Side Summer 2025: 9.67Kyiv NxN Summer 2025: 10.52Kyiv Side Events Autumn 2025: 10.02Ukrainian Nationals 2025: 8.38Kyiv Blind Side Autumn 2025: 7.58U24 Tetiana Day Kyiv 2026: 8.97Kyiv Blind Side Winter 2026: 8.61River Mall Kyiv 2026: 7.35Kyiv NxN Spring 2026: 6.89Ekvator Rivne Open 2026: 6.97Twist 'N Turn Kyiv 2026: 6.74Victoria Gardens Kyiv 2026: 5.85Vinnytsia Open 2026: 5.99Ukrainian Nationals 2026: 6.485.8529.9615 Mar 202518 Sep 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-5 3×3 single — 355 people have one; it is 0.85 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.62 away.

Targets move as he improves.