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Vladimir Vasiliev

Pyraminx · top 1.1% of 129,321 all-time · competing since May 2018 · 2018VASI04

Vladimir Vasiliev has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.95, set at Cube en Baie Open 2024, puts him in the top 1.1% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 18th in Russia. Until July 2011, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since May 2018, he has put 630 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 9 DNFs. His Pyraminx best has come down from 5.73 in May 2018 to 1.95, a 66% improvement. Vladimir has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 1.1% of 129,321 all-time
1.95
signature single · Cube en Baie Open 2024
630
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
Pyraminx1.953.13
top 1.1%18 / 3,777
Skewb2.894.85
top 4.5%52 / 2,264
Clock5.648.18
top 6.1%19 / 714
2×22.454.27
top 8.4%272 / 4,782
3×313.9217.87
top 20.7%1,001 / 6,475
Square-122.9327.08
top 34.5%185 / 759
3×3 one-handed33.0540.16
top 53.5%901 / 1,770
4×41:19.901:30.01
top 55.8%991 / 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

YJ Fest 2018: 5.73MPEI Open 2018: 3.72SPB Muffin Winter 2019: 3.24CCC Open Moscow 2019: 4.28French Championship 2019: 3.36German Nationals 2019: 3.93Ramenskoe Open 2019: 2.71UPM Open 2019: 3.06Nordic Championship 2019: 2.04MPEI Open 2019: 2.42SSL Final Stockholm 2019: 2.95CCC Qualification SPB 2020: 2.49Izhevsk Winter Cube 2020: 2.43Volga Nizhny Novgorod 2020: 2.32Bologna Summer Open 2021: 2.07Lincolnshire Winter 2023: 2.31Cube en Baie Open 2024: 1.951.955.7318 May 201817 Aug 2024

Best single per competition, Pyraminx. 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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.95 away.
  • A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.89 away.

Targets move as he improves.