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Pavel Zherebtsov (Павел Жеребцов)

3×3 · top 6.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2018 · 2018ZHER01

Pavel Zherebtsov (Павел Жеребцов) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.73, set at Volga Nizhny Novgorod 2020, puts him in the top 6.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 237th in Russia. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since May 2018, he has put 259 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 19% around a typical one; 99% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.02 in May 2018 to 9.73, a 46% improvement. Pavel has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.7% of 284,439 all-time
9.73
signature single · Volga Nizhny Novgorod 2020
259
official solves on the record
19%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 99% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×39.7312.47
top 6.7%237 / 6,475
4×439.9844.37
top 12.1%168 / 2,080
3×3 one-handed19.9725.27
top 20.4%317 / 1,770
2×23.755.43
top 23.3%907 / 4,782
5×51:30.251:37.38
top 27.5%191 / 941
6×62:41.053:11.79
top 31.3%72 / 343
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves42.00
top 33.6%94 / 366
Pyraminx7.789.34
top 34.4%1,213 / 3,777
Square-123.1227.00
top 35.0%192 / 759
Skewb8.5616.24
top 45.4%807 / 2,264
7×75:17.69
early days — 1 solve137 / 270
3×3 blindfolded3:28.19
early days — 3 solves158 / 310
Megaminx2:51.053:21.09
top 70.7%577 / 998

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

YJ Fest 2018: 18.02MPEI Open 2018: 15.54Nizhny Novgorod Spring Open 2019: 11.92CCC Open Moscow 2019: 12.11YJ Fest Moscow 2019: 12.05MPEI Open 2019: 10.32Volga Nizhny Novgorod 2020: 9.739.7318.0218 May 201829 Feb 2020

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.73 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 9.98 away.

Targets move as he improves.