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Rustam Valeev

3×3 · top 3.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2013 · 2013VALE03

Rustam Valeev has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.16, set at Moscow Winter Cubing 2018, puts him in the top 3.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 91st in Russia. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 40 competitions since July 2013, he has put 2,094 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.40 in July 2013 to 8.16, a 64% improvement. Rustam has entered 40 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.1% of 284,439 all-time
8.16
signature single · Moscow Winter Cubing 2018
2,094
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×38.1610.19
top 3.1%91 / 6,475
Pyraminx2.977.21
top 3.5%73 / 3,777
3×3 Multi-Blind20 of 21 cubes · 57:28—
top 5.4%6 / 98
3×3 blindfolded44.2755.78
top 8.0%19 / 310
3×3 one-handed15.4420.55
top 9.0%118 / 1,770
4×439.9747.69
top 12.1%167 / 2,080
2×22.814.24
top 12.1%417 / 4,782
5×51:24.201:26.84
top 22.6%150 / 941
Skewb5.6210.67
top 22.9%369 / 2,264
Clock11.5818.96
top 33.0%153 / 714
Square-127.8351.48
top 45.3%261 / 759
Megaminx2:03.242:29.09
top 47.6%332 / 998
6×63:31.613:41.69
top 55.3%156 / 343
3×3 Fewest Moves42 moves—
top 55.5%183 / 366
7×75:48.74—
top 64.9%156 / 270

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

Podolian Open 2013: 22.40Minsk Open 2013: 16.84MPEI Open 2013: 16.80CCC Winter Open 2014: 12.71Tula Open 2014: 11.90Dvina Open 2014: 12.60Cubing Fest 2014: 12.09Dvina One-Handed Edition 2014: 9.91CCC Autumn Open 2014: 11.13MPEI Open 2014: 10.44Vitba Winter 2015: 9.26Dvina 3.0 2015: 8.77Moscow Spring Open 2015: 9.77BSTU Open 2015: 11.69Saint Petersburg Summer Open 2015: 11.61CCC End of Summer 2015: 10.95Moscow South-West Open 2015: 10.83Two days in Vitebsk 2015: 9.71MPEI Open 2015: 11.27Moscow Christmas Open 2016: 9.94CCC Summer Open 2016: 10.75SPB Championship 2016: 10.21MPEI Open 2016: 10.23Cuberussia in MSK 2017: 11.00Spring in Vitebsk 2017: 11.05SPB Easter Open 2017: 8.92Ramenskoe Open 2017: 10.48Svetlye Gory Open 2017: 9.62SPB Championship 2017: 9.27MPEI Open 2017: 9.55Moscow Winter Cubing 2018: 8.16HSE Open 2018: 10.19CFCTC Open 2018: 10.43Svetlye Gory Open 2018: 9.20YJ Fest Belarus 2018: 9.66MPEI Open 2018: 10.27Kursk Open 2019: 9.09MPEI Open 2019: 9.968.1622.406 Jul 201322 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.16 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.97 away.

Targets move as he improves.