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Valentina Soloveva (Валентина Соловьёва)

Pyraminx · top 6.6% of 129,321 all-time · competing since August 2015 · 2015SOLO02

Valentina Soloveva (Валентина Соловьёва) has been competing for 11 years. Her best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 3.78, set at Svetlye Gory Open 2018, puts her in the top 6.6% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 175th in Russia. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 36 competitions since August 2015, she has put 546 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 85% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 1:19.79 in August 2015 to 21.56, a 73% improvement. Valentina has entered 36 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 6.6% of 129,321 all-time
3.78
signature single · Svetlye Gory Open 2018
546
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 85% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
Pyraminx3.7811.19
top 6.6%175 / 3,777
Skewb5.4510.00
top 21.6%339 / 2,264
3×321.5626.42
top 44.2%2,493 / 6,475
2×25.5510.25
top 45.9%1,929 / 4,782
Clock19.2522.55
top 62.5%373 / 714
3×3 one-handed50.481:09.23
top 77.2%1,351 / 1,770
4×43:44.84—
early days — 3 solves2,057 / 2,080

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

CCC End of Summer 2015: 1:19.79Moscow South-West Open 2015: 58.03Saint Petersburg Autumn Open 2015: 50.78MPEI Open 2015: 35.84Saint Petersburg Welcome To 2016: 42.23VSU Open 2016: 47.72SPB Spring Open 2016: 41.03Ural Open 2016: 39.90Full Steps in Brest 2016: 52.30CCC Summer Open 2016: 39.09SPB Championship 2016: 42.22Belgorod Open 2016: 30.16MPEI Open 2016: 31.45Minsk Winter 2016: 36.15Cuberussia in SPB 2017: 38.15Cuberussia in MSK 2017: 33.51To The Moon 2017: 28.39Ramenskoe Open 2017: 27.51Svetlye Gory Open 2017: 35.54Home is not DNF 2017: 31.24MPEI Open 2017: 28.00HSE Open 2018: 30.66YJ Fest 2018: 32.49Voronezh Open 2018: 22.65Svetlye Gory Open 2018: 21.56Welcome to Brest 2018: 30.56Kursk Open 2018: 24.05Welcome to Academy 2018: 24.54MPEI Open 2018: 30.16CCC Open Moscow 2019: 26.25Ramenskoe Open 2019: 31.54MPEI Open 2019: 25.13Volga Nizhny Novgorod 2020: 27.3221.561:19.7928 Aug 201529 Feb 2020

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.78 away.
  • A sub-5 Skewb single — 13,285 people have one; it is 0.45 away.

Targets move as she improves.