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Semyon Terskov

3×3 · top 4.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2012 · 2012TERS02

Semyon Terskov has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.91, set at Ural Winter 2017, puts him in the top 4.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 163rd in Russia. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since May 2012, he has put 1,291 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 47.30 in May 2012 to 8.91, an 81% improvement. Semyon has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.7% of 284,439 all-time
8.91
signature single · Ural Winter 2017
1,291
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×38.9111.08
top 4.7%163 / 6,475
Skewb2.994.92
top 4.9%63 / 2,264
3×3 one-handed13.6317.91
top 5.5%73 / 1,770
Megaminx55.811:03.21
top 7.8%47 / 998
4×437.5343.00
top 9.3%111 / 2,080
Pyraminx4.588.14
top 10.7%299 / 3,777
2×23.255.18
top 17.2%642 / 4,782
Square-118.3424.55
top 24.2%125 / 759
5×51:32.891:39.43
top 29.7%213 / 941
3×3 blindfolded2:21.25
top 40.5%94 / 310
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves42.33
top 44.7%133 / 366
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 3 cubes · 24:11
early days — 2 solves48 / 98
6×65:24.585:37.98
early days — 3 solves275 / 343
7×79:13.68
early days — 2 solves260 / 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

Ural Open 2012: 47.30Ural Winter 2014: 13.75Ural Open 2014: 10.49Ekb Open 2015: 12.66Ural Winter 2015: 14.19Ural Open 2015: 12.21Ural Autumn 2015: 10.90Ural Winter 2016: 10.38Ural Open 2016: 11.93Ural Autumn 2016: 9.95Ural Winter 2017: 8.91Ural Spring 2017: 11.58Ural Open 2017: 10.32Ural Autumn 2017: 10.75Ural Winter 2018: 10.92Ekat Summer 2018: 9.16Ural Open 2018: 10.52Ural Autumn 2018: 9.58Ural Spring 2019: 10.07Ural Autumn 2019: 12.868.9147.3019 May 201228 Sep 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 0.91 away.
  • A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.99 away.

Targets move as he improves.