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Sanzhar Beisembayev

3×3 · top 0.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2018 · 2018BEIS01

Sanzhar Beisembayev has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.34, set at UMBC Winter 2024, puts him in the top 0.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 138th in the United States. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 31 competitions since July 2018, he has put 957 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.81 in July 2018 to 5.34, a 61% improvement. Sanzhar has entered 31 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.2% of 284,439 all-time
5.34
signature single · UMBC Winter 2024
957
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.347.00
top 0.2%138 / 59,724
4×425.7330.49
top 0.91%155 / 19,072
5×547.3551.88
top 1.1%97 / 9,401
2×21.523.19
top 2.2%888 / 40,951
6×61:35.921:39.45
top 3.1%108 / 4,196
Megaminx54.181:04.95
top 7.1%492 / 7,841
7×72:51.063:00.42
top 8.2%224 / 3,184
3×3 one-handed15.1419.24
top 8.4%1,115 / 15,683
Skewb4.758.25
top 16.3%2,566 / 18,907
Square-120.9126.21
top 30.0%1,942 / 6,743
Pyraminx10.9115.06
top 59.9%17,586 / 28,708

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

Fredericksburg Summer Open 2018: 13.81Slow N Steady Summer 2018: 12.09CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 9.06CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 10.40Potomac Speedcubing 2020: 8.07Slow N Steady Winter 2020: 8.44Slow N Steady Fall 2022: 7.02Slow N Steady Spring 2023: 6.40Cougar Qualifier 2023: 5.81Slow N Steady Fall 2023: 7.02Cubing in the Lion's Den 2024: 6.83UMBC Winter 2024: 5.34Slow N Steady Spring 2024: 7.04Bethesda Summer Showdown 2024: 7.39UMBC Fall 2024: 7.00Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2024: 6.45Bethesda Winter Wonderland 2025: 6.74Slow N Steady UMD Spring 2025: 6.38River Hill Spring 2025: 6.12More Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 5.61Cubing Kazakhstan Nationals 2025: 6.30Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2025: 7.51UMBC Fall 2025: 6.34River Hill Fall 2025: 6.91UMBC Winter 2026: 5.57TJHSST Winter 2026: 6.38Welcome to Washington D.C. 2026: 6.31Derwood Cubing Derby Spring 2026: 6.285.3413.8121 Jul 20189 May 2026

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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.34 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 0.73 away.

Targets move as he improves.