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Volodymyr Hnidko (Володимир Гнідко)

3×3 · top 0.79% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2016 · 2016HNID01

Volodymyr Hnidko (Володимир Гнідко) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.42, set at Cube4fun Lublin February 2026, puts him in the top 0.79% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 25th in Ukraine. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since July 2016, he has put 1,071 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.23 in July 2016 to 6.42, a 58% improvement. Volodymyr has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.79% of 284,439 all-time
6.42
signature single · Cube4fun Lublin February 2026
1,071
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 74% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
3×36.427.64
top 0.79%25 / 2,868
2×21.182.77
top 0.98%17 / 1,894
4×427.7532.38
top 1.7%19 / 867
3×3 one-handed12.0614.37
top 3.1%25 / 755
Pyraminx3.235.91
top 4.4%74 / 1,471
5×51:01.741:08.53
top 6.5%32 / 425
Megaminx1:12.031:22.54
top 16.9%69 / 424
6×62:19.952:28.80
top 20.4%38 / 169
7×74:07.534:19.69
top 33.6%45 / 135
3×3 Fewest Moves40 moves—
early days — 1 solve104 / 222

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

Cowboys Summer 2016: 15.23Dnepr Never Fails 2018: 8.51Ukrainian Open 2018: 8.66Mariupol Open 2018: 6.65Smart Cube Fest 2018: 8.20Ukrainian Open 2019: 7.53Smartcube Fest Kyiv 2019: 7.12Cube4fun Double Weekend Warsaw 2023: 7.33Cube4fun Lublin in Staszic 2023: 7.22Cube4fun Double Weekend Lublin II 2023: 8.05Cube4fun in Warsaw 2024: 6.81Cube4fun in Lublin 2024: 7.30Cube4fun Lublin on WEII 2024: 7.02Energy Cube Białołęka 2024: 7.70Cube4fun Cubers Eve Żyrardów 2024: 8.49Cube4fun Lublin Winter 2025: 7.33Cube4fun Warsaw Saturday 2025: 6.80Cube4fun Lublin Summer 2025: 8.02Warm-Up Warsaw 2025: 6.91Szansa Cubing Open Warsaw 2025: 8.15Energy Cube Białołęka 2025: 6.77Cube4fun Cubers Eve Żyrardów 2025: 7.23Cube4fun Lublin Winter 2026: 7.37Cube4fun Lublin February 2026: 6.42Cube4fun Lublin Spring 2026: 6.556.4215.232 Jul 201619 Apr 2026

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 0.42 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.18 away.

Targets move as he improves.