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Sergey Malyshev

3×3 · top 4.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2018 · 2018MALY05

Sergey Malyshev has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.84, set at Seaside Solving Saturday 2022, puts him in the top 4.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 152nd in Russia. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since May 2018, he has put 182 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 4 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.52 in May 2018 to 8.84, a 68% improvement. Sergey has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.5% of 284,439 all-time
8.84
signature single · Seaside Solving Saturday 2022
182
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×38.8410.28
top 4.5%152 / 6,475
2×22.804.96
top 12.0%410 / 4,782
4×445.5452.02
top 19.0%264 / 2,080
5×51:28.961:36.91
top 26.4%182 / 941
3×3 one-handed22.6426.53
top 27.8%444 / 1,770
Clock10.9214.69
top 29.7%140 / 714
6×63:02.403:11.31
early days — 3 solves119 / 343
Skewb9.3215.67
top 50.6%918 / 2,264
3×3 Fewest Moves41 moves
top 51.8%159 / 366
Pyraminx9.8914.26
top 52.1%1,930 / 3,777
Megaminx3:13.39
early days — 3 solves666 / 998

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 Island 2018: 27.52SPB Summer 2018: 17.89Speedcubes Fest in SPB 2018: 14.47Welcome to Academy 2018: 15.31Seaside Solving Saturday 2022: 8.84UCD Cube Days 2024: 9.018.8427.5212 May 201813 Apr 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 0.84 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.80 away.

Targets move as he improves.