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Yuliia Ostapenko (Юлія Остапенко)

3×3 · top 62.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2011 · 2011OPAN01

Yuliia Ostapenko (Юлія Остапенко) has been competing for 15 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 29.76, set at Lutsk Open 2013, puts her in the top 62.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,649th in Ukraine. Across 25 competitions since May 2011, she has put 182 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one; 98% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 1:02.66 in May 2011 to 29.76, a 53% improvement. Yuliia has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 62.1% of 284,439 all-time
29.76
signature single · Lutsk Open 2013
182
official solves on the record
18%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 98% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
3×329.7638.60
top 62.1%1,649 / 2,868
2×27.3311.35
top 63.0%1,160 / 1,894
Pyraminx20.8826.07
top 93.9%1,408 / 1,471
Clock49.5659.87
top 96.9%334 / 347
Skewb33.4147.31
top 98.0%870 / 884

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

Kyiv Open 2011: 1:02.66World Rubik's Cube Championship 2011: 43.77Ukraine Open 2012: 44.43Podolian Open 2012: 33.02Oleksandriia Open 2012: 33.66European Rubik's Cube Championship 2012: 37.40Kharkiv Winter 2012: 36.40100th Anniversary Meeting in Kyiv 2013: 41.53Ukrainian Open 2013: 32.16Podolian Open 2013: 40.40Kharkiv Cube Day 2013: 30.83Lutsk Open 2013: 29.76Oleksandriia Open 2013: 32.88NULAU Kharkiv Winter 2013: 37.12Dnepr Cube Day 2014: 42.85Naftusia Open 2014: 39.63Ukrainian Nationals 2014: 39.31Odessa Open 2014: 32.32Podolian Open 2014: 34.94Ukrainian Open 2015: 39.34Smart Cube Open 2017: 49.95Ukrainian Open 2018: 1:07.12Smart Cube Fest 2018: 46.87Cubes Masters Zhytomyr 2021: 34.7129.761:07.1214 May 20117 Aug 2021

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-25 3×3 single — 149,621 people have one; it is 4.76 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 1.33 away.

Targets move as she improves.