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Yaroslav Ryzhyi (Ярослав Рижий)

2×2 · top 0.72% of 186,767 all-time · competing since November 2015 · 2015RYZH01

Yaroslav Ryzhyi (Ярослав Рижий) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.08, set at Lviv Spring Days 2016, puts him in the top 0.72% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13th in Ukraine. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since November 2015, he has put 368 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 80% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 2×2 best has come down from 4.04 in November 2015 to 1.08, a 73% improvement. Yaroslav has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.72% of 186,767 all-time
1.08
signature single · Lviv Spring Days 2016
368
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 80% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
2×21.082.88
top 0.72%13 / 1,894
3×36.769.23
top 1.1%34 / 2,868
3×3 one-handed12.5518.06
top 3.7%36 / 755
Pyraminx3.504.79
top 5.5%103 / 1,471
4×437.2745.02
top 9.0%88 / 867
5×51:15.881:25.39
top 16.0%67 / 425
Skewb7.589.30
top 38.1%319 / 884
Megaminx1:53.102:15.91
top 42.1%164 / 424
6×63:47.454:31.37
early days — 3 solves111 / 169

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

Anatoliy Moroz Open 2015: 4.04Lviv Spring Days 2016: 1.08Ukrainian Nationals 2016: 2.82Just Lviv It 2017: 2.02Lviv Cube Cup 2017: 1.771.084.0428 Nov 201525 Nov 2017

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.08 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.76 away.

Targets move as he improves.