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Pavel Vershinin

3×3 · top 8.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2011 · 2011VERS04

Pavel Vershinin has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.28, set at Nelidovo Open 2013, puts him in the top 8.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 319th in Russia. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since August 2011, he has put 527 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 91% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.19 in August 2011 to 10.28, a 43% improvement. Pavel has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.3% of 284,439 all-time
10.28
signature single · Nelidovo Open 2013
527
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×310.2812.75
top 8.3%319 / 6,475
2×22.904.61
top 13.1%455 / 4,782
3×3 one-handed19.8125.54
top 20.0%306 / 1,770
4×447.3052.55
top 21.2%301 / 2,080
5×51:57.771:59.31
top 47.9%394 / 941
Pyraminx10.0313.49
top 53.2%1,980 / 3,777
Skewb11.0319.98
top 61.0%1,151 / 2,264
3×3 Fewest Moves45 moves49.00
early days — 3 solves225 / 366
6×64:36.846:41.44
top 76.4%242 / 343

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

Russia Open 2011: 18.19MPEI Open 2011: 18.27Moscow North-West Open 2012: 14.52Oleksandriia Open 2012: 12.06MPEI Open 2012: 11.80Moscow North-West Open Winter 2013: 12.39Nelidovo Open 2013: 10.28Podolian Open 2013: 11.59Lutsk Open 2013: 10.77MPEI Open 2013: 12.63CCC Autumn Open 2014: 12.16MPEI Open 2014: 12.34Saint Petersburg Summer Open 2015: 12.50MPEI Open 2017: 11.13MPEI Open 2018: 10.99MPEI Open 2019: 13.9310.2818.2727 Aug 201122 Nov 2019

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 0.28 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.90 away.

Targets move as he improves.