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Yulian Kaplyuk (Юліан Каплюк)

3×3 · top 2.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2013 · 2013KAPL01

Yulian Kaplyuk (Юліан Каплюк) has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.08, set at Kharkiv Open 2014, puts him in the top 2.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 89th in Ukraine. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since May 2013, he has put 790 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 81% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.50 in May 2013 to 8.08, a 23% improvement. Yulian has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.9% of 284,439 all-time
8.08
signature single · Kharkiv Open 2014
790
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 81% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
3×38.089.69
top 2.9%89 / 2,868
4×435.8241.18
top 7.5%69 / 867
2×22.603.46
top 9.9%180 / 1,894
3×3 one-handed18.1421.28
top 15.4%136 / 755
5×51:30.241:45.04
top 27.5%139 / 425
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves39.67
top 33.6%78 / 222
Pyraminx12.2914.88
top 69.0%1,089 / 1,471
7×76:29.756:35.81
early days — 3 solves109 / 135

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

Ukrainian Open 2013: 10.50Podolian Open 2013: 9.68Kharkiv Cube Day 2013: 9.79Lutsk Open 2013: 10.11Oleksandriia Open 2013: 9.91NULAU Kharkiv Winter 2013: 8.90Kharkiv Open 2014: 8.08Dnepr Cube Day 2014: 8.95Naftusia Open 2014: 8.71Ukrainian Nationals 2014: 8.65Odessa Open 2014: 9.26Podolian Open 2014: 8.80PLS Autumn Reda 2014: 8.88GLS Winter 2014: 9.14Riviera Cube Week 2015: 9.74Ukrainian Nationals 2016: 8.968.0810.5018 May 201316 Sep 2016

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.08 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 5.82 away.

Targets move as he improves.