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Vasily Podgorny (Василий Подгорный)

3×3 · top 3.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2018 · 2018PODG02

Vasily Podgorny (Василий Подгорный) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.39, set at YJ Fest Moscow 2019, puts him in the top 3.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 113th in Russia. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 2 competitions since September 2018, he has put 101 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.82 in September 2018 to 8.39, a 29% improvement. Vasily has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 3.5% of 284,439 all-time
8.39
signature single · YJ Fest Moscow 2019
101
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×38.3911.23
top 3.5%113 / 6,475
Pyraminx5.346.60
top 15.4%496 / 3,777
4×442.7746.03
top 15.5%218 / 2,080
3×3 one-handed20.3628.72
top 21.5%338 / 1,770
5×51:25.131:32.05
top 23.4%159 / 941
2×23.855.10
top 24.6%957 / 4,782
Square-123.0343.13
top 34.8%189 / 759
Skewb7.218.97
top 35.3%581 / 2,264
Megaminx1:51.592:14.96
top 41.2%278 / 998

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

Speedcubes Fest in SPB 2018: 11.82YJ Fest Moscow 2019: 8.398.3911.8229 Sep 201828 Jun 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.39 away.
  • A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.34 away.

Targets move as he improves.