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Serhii Yakovliev (Сергій Яковлєв)

3×3 · top 2.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2018 · 2018YAKO07

Serhii Yakovliev (Сергій Яковлєв) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.79, set at Cube Factory 2023, puts him in the top 2.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 80th in Ukraine. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since October 2018, he has put 167 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 9% around a typical one, steadier than 99% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.83 in October 2018 to 7.79, a 61% improvement. Serhii has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.4% of 284,439 all-time
7.79
signature single · Cube Factory 2023
167
official solves on the record
9%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 99% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
3×37.7911.68
top 2.4%80 / 2,868
4×443.5053.67
top 16.4%141 / 867
2×23.504.55
top 20.2%381 / 1,894
Skewb8.5310.31
top 45.2%384 / 884
Pyraminx15.6016.26
top 83.9%1,293 / 1,471

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

Ukrainian Nationals 2018: 19.83Smart Cube Fest 2018: 20.46Lviv Spring Days 2019: 14.46Ukrainian Open 2019: 14.71Ukrainian Nationals 2019: 13.77Cube4fun in Warsaw 2023: 10.65Cube Factory 2023: 7.79Polish Championship 2023: 10.197.7920.4612 Oct 20186 Oct 2023

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.79 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 3.50 away.

Targets move as he improves.