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Tigran Orbelyan

3×3 · top 8.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2012 · 2012ORBE01

Tigran Orbelyan has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.38, set at MPEI Open 2015, puts him in the top 8.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 337th in Russia. Until February 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since November 2012, he has put 130 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.55 in November 2012 to 10.38, a 52% improvement. Tigran has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.6% of 284,439 all-time
10.38
signature single · MPEI Open 2015
130
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×310.3812.68
top 8.6%337 / 6,475
4×451.8359.08
top 27.0%432 / 2,080
3×3 one-handed25.0827.96
top 34.4%549 / 1,770
2×24.956.73
top 38.7%1,564 / 4,782
3×3 blindfolded2:37.79
top 45.7%114 / 310
5×52:07.30
early days — 2 solves443 / 941

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

MPEI Open 2012: 21.55Moscow North-West Open Winter 2013: 18.77MPEI Open 2013: 15.46MPEI Open 2014: 11.98Moscow Spring Open 2015: 10.99CCC End of Summer 2015: 11.30Moscow South-West Open 2015: 12.33MPEI Open 2015: 10.38MPEI Open 2019: 14.0410.3821.5524 Nov 201222 Nov 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.38 away.
  • A sub-50 4×4 single — 20,746 people have one; it is 1.83 away.

Targets move as he improves.