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Vladimir Lapin

3×3 · top 23.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2015 · 2015LAPI01

Vladimir Lapin has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.65, set at MPEI Open 2019, puts him in the top 23.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,163rd in Russia. Across 17 competitions since March 2015, he has put 394 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 59.00 in March 2015 to 14.65, a 75% improvement. Vladimir has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 23.2% of 284,439 all-time
14.65
signature single · MPEI Open 2019
394
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×314.6517.79
top 23.2%1,163 / 6,475
3×3 one-handed25.6831.99
top 36.0%579 / 1,770
2×25.606.95
top 46.5%1,965 / 4,782
5×52:08.323:06.06
top 54.4%457 / 941
3×3 Fewest Moves42 moves51.67
top 55.5%183 / 366
4×41:21.661:29.06
top 57.3%1,022 / 2,080
Pyraminx12.6524.96
top 71.0%2,683 / 3,777
Megaminx3:53.81
top 88.8%803 / 998
3×3 blindfolded6:47.71
top 90.9%269 / 310

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

Moscow Spring Open 2015: 59.00Saint Petersburg Spring Open 2015: 35.68BSTU Open 2015: 29.09Saint Petersburg Summer Open 2015: 23.68Dvina Open 2015: 20.02CCC End of Summer 2015: 22.67Moscow South-West Open 2015: 23.49Belgorod Open 2015: 21.84Saint Petersburg Autumn Open 2015: 18.98MPEI Open 2015: 20.08Saint Petersburg Welcome To 2016: 18.41CCC Spring Open 2016: 16.96MPEI Open 2016: 15.68SPB Winter 2016: 14.94LETI Open 2017: 18.28Tver EaZyCube Race 2019: 17.13MPEI Open 2019: 14.6514.6559.0013 Mar 201522 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.65 away.
  • A sub-25 3×3 one-handed single — 25,198 people have one; it is 0.68 away.

Targets move as he improves.