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Roman Ostapenko (Роман Остапенко)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 3.0% of 12,294 all-time · competing since March 2009 · 2009OSTA01

Roman Ostapenko (Роман Остапенко) has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 23 moves, set at Kyiv FMC Friends I 2024, puts him in the top 3.0% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 10th in Ukraine. Across 83 competitions since March 2009, he has put 1,912 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.26 in March 2009 to 9.13, a 69% improvement. Roman has entered 83 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 3.0% of 12,294 all-time
23 moves
signature single · Kyiv FMC Friends I 2024
1,912
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
3×3 Fewest Moves23 moves29.00
top 3.0%10 / 222
3×39.1311.82
top 5.2%150 / 2,868
Pyraminx3.766.57
top 6.5%123 / 1,471
2×22.654.41
top 10.4%188 / 1,894
4×442.3751.97
top 14.9%129 / 867
3×3 one-handed18.6324.54
top 16.8%145 / 755
3×3 blindfolded1:28.364:30.24
top 22.4%37 / 177
Square-119.1421.01
top 25.9%81 / 302
Clock11.2113.50
top 31.1%108 / 347
Megaminx1:42.521:46.55
top 36.2%141 / 424
Skewb9.3216.27
top 50.6%416 / 884
5×52:19.362:30.22
top 60.7%260 / 425
6×64:30.665:55.16
top 74.8%130 / 169
7×77:37.8010:46.00
top 85.6%121 / 135
3×3 Multi-Blind1 of 2 cubes · 12:23—
early days — 1 solve62 / 67

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

Moscow Open 2009: 29.26European Rubik's Cube Championship 2010: 16.19Kyiv Open 2011: 12.33World Rubik's Cube Championship 2011: 12.09Ukraine Open 2012: 11.16Podolian Open 2012: 11.33Oleksandriia Open 2012: 13.09European Rubik's Cube Championship 2012: 11.63Kharkiv Winter 2012: 11.27Ukrainian Open 2013: 9.13Podolian Open 2013: 11.33Kharkiv Cube Day 2013: 10.58Lutsk Open 2013: 10.85Oleksandriia Open 2013: 11.19NULAU Kharkiv Winter 2013: 11.53Dnepr Cube Day 2014: 12.22Naftusia Open 2014: 11.46Ukrainian Nationals 2014: 13.11Odessa Open 2014: 9.65Podolian Open 2014: 11.61Yuzhnoukrainsk Open 2015: 11.74Ukrainian Open 2015: 12.36Lviv Spring Days 2016: 13.90Slavonic Gymnasium Open 2016: 12.30Ukrainian Nationals 2016: 14.44Just Lviv It 2017: 12.78Smart Cube Open 2017: 13.63Ukrainian Nationals 2017: 12.42Dnepr Skips 2017: 12.22Dnepr Never Fails 2018: 12.60Ukrainian Open 2018: 12.81Uzhgorod Summer 2018: 12.00Zhytomyr Open 2018: 13.16Smart Cube Fest 2018: 13.93Vinnytsia Open 2019: 11.90Zhytomyr Cube Battle 2019: 11.48Vinnytsia Cube Cup 2019: 12.11Smartcube Fest Kyiv 2019: 12.85Cubes Masters Zhytomyr 2019: 13.48Cubes Masters Zhytomyr 2021: 13.07Horse City 2021: 13.68U24 Open September 2022: 12.64U24 Open October 2022: 12.97U24 Open November 2022: 10.88U24 Nationals 2022: 13.18U24 Tetiana Day 2023: 12.86Nikita Kovalchuk Memorial 2023: 11.23Kyiv NxN Summer 2024: 11.98Kyiv Side Events Winter 2024: 12.429.1329.268 Mar 200914 Dec 2024

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 1.13 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.76 away.

Targets move as he improves.