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Vladimir Tikhonenko (Владимир Тихоненко)

3×3 · top 1.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2018 · 2018TIKH01

Vladimir Tikhonenko (Владимир Тихоненко) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.86, set at DIA EH Cube for Change Dubai B 2025, puts him in the top 1.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 28th in Russia. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since August 2018, he has put 774 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.42 in August 2018 to 6.86, a 56% improvement. Vladimir has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.2% of 284,439 all-time
6.86
signature single · DIA EH Cube for Change Dubai B 2025
774
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×36.868.29
top 1.2%28 / 6,475
2×21.372.13
top 1.6%60 / 4,782
3×3 one-handed11.2717.02
top 2.1%26 / 1,770
Square-17.889.95
top 2.8%7 / 759
Pyraminx3.144.99
top 4.1%97 / 3,777
Skewb3.165.51
top 5.8%75 / 2,264
4×434.6336.23
top 6.4%66 / 2,080
5×51:05.231:13.65
top 8.5%42 / 941
Megaminx1:32.251:41.13
top 29.6%179 / 998
Clock11.5812.67
top 33.0%153 / 714
6×62:46.192:56.72
top 34.1%86 / 343
7×76:37.93—
early days — 2 solves187 / 270
3×3 Fewest Moves49 moves—
early days — 1 solve277 / 366

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

YJ Fest Belarus 2018: 15.42Welcome to Academy 2018: 12.96Welcome to Murmansk 2019: 10.30Belarus Nationals 2019: 11.01CCC Qualification Saratov 2019: 10.00CCC Qualification Tyumen 2019: 8.38CCC Qualification Kazan 2020: 9.43Eka Cube Winter 2020: 9.21Tyumen Cube Fest 2020: 8.62Ural Autumn 2020: 8.19Ural Spring 2021: 7.57Tyumen Happy Saturday 2021: 8.40Bogoroditsk Open 2021: 8.18Cubing Ekat Open 2021: 8.21DIA EH Cube for Change Dubai B 2025: 6.866.8615.4225 Aug 201826 Jan 2025

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.86 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.37 away.

Targets move as he improves.