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Ruslan Romanenko

3×3 one-handed · top 1.7% of 73,695 all-time · competing since September 2016 · 2016ROMA04

Ruslan Romanenko has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 10.89, set at Astana Open 2023, puts him in the top 1.7% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 22nd in Russia. Until July 2011, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since September 2016, he has put 249 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.02 in September 2016 to 7.47, a 77% improvement. Ruslan has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 1.7% of 73,695 all-time
10.89
signature single · Astana Open 2023
249
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×3 one-handed10.8914.46
top 1.7%22 / 1,770
3×37.4710.06
top 1.9%47 / 6,475
2×22.713.43
top 11.0%375 / 4,782
4×439.6248.98
top 11.7%158 / 2,080
3×3 blindfolded1:57.192:32.55
top 32.6%71 / 310
Clock11.8615.50
top 34.2%161 / 714
Pyraminx12.9516.85
top 72.6%2,753 / 3,777
3×3 Fewest Moves48 moves
early days — 1 solve268 / 366
Skewb13.9721.42
top 74.6%1,529 / 2,264

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

SPB Championship 2016: 33.02CCC Open Moscow 2019: 20.44YJ Fest Moscow 2019: 16.08Volga Open 2019: 10.63Bogoroditsk Open 2021: 10.15Tyumen Alpaca 2022: 10.50Leovit Anniversary Cubing Kazakhstan 2023: 8.95Azerbaijan Nationals 2023: 7.47Astana Open 2023: 9.18Tashkent Open 2024: 9.687.4733.023 Sep 201624 Feb 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-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 0.89 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.47 away.

Targets move as he improves.