Sunday 6 September 2026 Rebuilt nightly from the WCA's official results · export of 6 September 2026 · About
The Middle Three
People → Ukraine → Vadym Hruden (Вадим Грудень)

People · Ukraine

Vadym Hruden (Вадим Грудень)

3×3 · top 7.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2016 · 2016HRUD01

Vadym Hruden (Вадим Грудень) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.01, set at Lviv Spring Days 2019, puts him in the top 7.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 205th in Ukraine. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since September 2016, he has put 459 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.49 in September 2016 to 10.01, a 53% improvement. Vadym has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.5% of 284,439 all-time
10.01
signature single · Lviv Spring Days 2019
459
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
3×310.0112.68
top 7.5%205 / 2,868
3×3 one-handed16.6422.34
top 11.7%106 / 755
Megaminx1:03.911:07.85
top 12.0%45 / 424
Pyraminx5.4911.32
top 16.4%288 / 1,471
2×23.555.42
top 20.8%392 / 1,894
3×3 Fewest Moves38 moves
top 40.9%90 / 222
4×41:12.311:36.00
top 49.1%419 / 867
5×52:30.642:48.19
top 66.0%282 / 425

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 2016: 21.49Just Lviv It 2017: 13.45Smart Cube Open 2017: 13.83Ukrainian Nationals 2017: 12.98Lviv Cube Cup 2017: 14.14Dnepr Never Fails 2018: 11.19Lviv Spring Days 2018: 10.52Uzhgorod Summer 2018: 12.34Ukrainian Nationals 2018: 11.88Smart Cube Fest 2018: 11.12Lviv Spring Days 2019: 10.01Ukrainian Open 2019: 12.21Ukrainian Nationals 2019: 11.18That is Lviv 2023: 10.67Ukrainian Nationals 2023: 11.66Ukrainian Nationals 2024: 13.2710.0121.4916 Sep 20161 Nov 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.01 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 1.64 away.

Targets move as he improves.