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Valeriia Volova (Валерія Волова)

Pyraminx · top 3.5% of 129,321 all-time · competing since July 2018 · 2018VOLO03

Valeriia Volova (Валерія Волова) has been competing for 8 years. Her best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.97, set at U24 Nationals 2022, puts her in the top 3.5% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 54th in Ukraine. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 31 competitions since July 2018, she has put 1,327 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her Skewb best has come down from 19.68 in July 2018 to 3.02, an 85% improvement. Valeriia has entered 31 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 3.5% of 129,321 all-time
2.97
signature single · U24 Nationals 2022
1,327
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
Pyraminx2.974.35
top 3.5%54 / 1,471
Skewb3.024.99
top 5.1%42 / 884
Square-110.0614.66
top 6.2%16 / 302
Clock5.686.58
top 6.2%21 / 347
Megaminx58.481:03.72
top 9.2%36 / 424
2×22.574.46
top 9.6%172 / 1,894
3×311.3414.13
top 11.6%301 / 2,868
4×444.9053.53
top 18.2%154 / 867
5×52:01.342:19.40
top 50.0%214 / 425
3×3 one-handed37.8845.97
top 62.2%495 / 755

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

White City Cubing 2018: 19.68Kharkiv Open 2018: 18.84Belgorod Open 2018: 11.69Ukrainian Nationals 2018: 7.69Voronezh Open 2019: 4.24White City Cubing 2019: 6.17Belarus Nationals 2019: 4.07CCC Qualification Voronezh 2019: 3.11Kharkiv Open 2019: 7.95Ukrainian Nationals 2019: 4.42Belgorod Open 2019: 4.13Cubes Masters Zhytomyr 2019: 5.71Frankivsk Open 2019: 3.58Moldova Open 2020: 4.23Cubes Masters Zhytomyr 2021: 4.13Horse City 2021: 4.34Kharkiv Cubefall 2021: 3.12U24 Open September 2022: 4.27U24 Open October 2022: 3.57U24 Nationals 2022: 4.81Ternopil Science Cubing 2023: 3.84Kyiv Side Events 2023: 5.31Prague Open 2023: 4.18Ukrainian Open 2023: 4.18That is Lviv 2023: 3.02Ukrainian Nationals 2023: 5.53Bratislava Spring Is Coming 2024: 4.14Side Events Bulgaria 2024: 4.78Minxing in Bratislava 2024: 6.05Nitra Open 2025: 3.963.0219.687 Jul 201818 Jan 2025

Best single per competition, Skewb. 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-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.97 away.
  • A sub-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.02 away.

Targets move as she improves.