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Yevheniia Melnykova (Євгенія Мельникова)

3×3 · top 1.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2016 · 2016MELN01

Yevheniia Melnykova (Євгенія Мельникова) has been competing for 10 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.89, set at Vinnytsia Cube Cup 2019, puts her in the top 1.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 40th in Ukraine. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 34 competitions since March 2016, she has put 1,303 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 16.50 in March 2016 to 6.89, a 58% improvement. Yevheniia has entered 34 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.2% of 284,439 all-time
6.89
signature single · Vinnytsia Cube Cup 2019
1,303
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
3×36.899.05
top 1.2%40 / 2,868
4×427.0230.83
top 1.4%13 / 867
5×549.1154.04
top 1.5%5 / 425
2×21.715.06
top 3.1%67 / 1,894
6×61:37.621:43.31
top 3.5%5 / 169
Megaminx48.2255.04
top 4.4%19 / 424
3×3 one-handed13.1417.85
top 4.6%42 / 755
7×73:25.933:41.83
top 18.4%23 / 135
Pyraminx7.4911.89
top 31.9%532 / 1,471
Square-121.9930.77
top 32.5%97 / 302
3×3 Fewest Moves43 moves48.00
top 59.0%127 / 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

Kharkiv Special 2016: 16.50Lviv Spring Days 2016: 14.48Slavonic Gymnasium Open 2016: 10.73Cowboys Summer 2016: 10.58Kharkiv Cube Day 2016: 9.52Ukrainian Nationals 2016: 10.65Just Lviv It 2017: 10.35Smart Cube Open 2017: 10.35Kharkiv Cube Day 2017: 9.05Belgorod Open 2017: 10.14Dnepr Skips 2017: 9.55Kharkiv Winter 2017: 8.05Dnepr Never Fails 2018: 8.40Cube Star 2018: 8.79Lviv Spring Days 2018: 8.00Dnipro Cube Generation 2018: 8.08Ukrainian Open 2018: 8.88White City Cubing 2018: 7.70Uzhgorod Summer 2018: 8.07Kharkiv Open 2018: 8.67Smart Cube Fest 2018: 7.70Ukrainian Open 2019: 10.11Vinnytsia Cube Cup 2019: 6.89Kharkiv Open 2019: 8.26Dnepr Puzzles Fest 2019: 9.74Kharkiv Cubefall 2021: 8.54U24 Open October 2022: 8.51Nikita Kovalchuk Memorial 2023: 7.206.8916.5013 Mar 201614 May 2023

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.89 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 2.02 away.

Targets move as she improves.