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Stepan Tsarev

Clock · top 10.8% of 32,048 all-time · competing since September 2015 · 2015TSAR01

Stepan Tsarev has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 6.97, set at HSE Open 2018, puts him in the top 10.8% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 42nd in Russia. Across 16 competitions since September 2015, he has put 480 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 89% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 42.38 in September 2015 to 17.03, a 60% improvement. Stepan has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 10.8% of 32,048 all-time
6.97
signature single · HSE Open 2018
480
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 89% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
Clock6.978.33
top 10.8%42 / 714
Pyraminx4.806.31
top 12.0%343 / 3,777
Square-113.8717.95
top 13.8%64 / 759
2×23.514.75
top 20.3%771 / 4,782
3×317.0321.25
top 31.1%1,623 / 6,475
Skewb8.2011.12
top 42.8%751 / 2,264
Megaminx2:17.572:38.02
top 55.1%390 / 998
3×3 blindfolded3:16.12
top 56.9%145 / 310
3×3 Fewest Moves44 moves
early days — 2 solves212 / 366
3×3 one-handed40.7858.46
top 66.4%1,138 / 1,770
4×41:34.282:03.44
top 66.7%1,221 / 2,080
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 3 cubes · 25:33
early days — 1 solve84 / 98

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

Moscow South-West Open 2015: 42.38Two days in Vitebsk 2015: 32.03CCC Spring Open 2016: 33.77SPB Spring Open 2016: 31.50Cuberussia in SPB 2017: 35.64Tatarstan Spring Open 2017: 25.08Svetlye Gory Open 2017: 22.16SPB Championship 2017: 19.90MPEI Open 2017: 18.49Saratov Winter Open 2017: 22.21Moscow Winter Cubing 2018: 17.03HSE Open 2018: 21.40YJ Fest 2018: 20.07MPEI Open 2018: 21.8317.0342.3819 Sep 201523 Nov 2018

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 Clock single — 2,324 people have one; it is 0.97 away.
  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.80 away.

Targets move as he improves.