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Yura Plitin

3×3 · top 43.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2009 · 2009PLIT02

Yura Plitin has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 21.16, set at MPEI Open 2016, puts him in the top 43.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,410th in Russia. Across 15 competitions since August 2009, he has put 74 official solves on the record across one event. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 48.38 in August 2009 to 21.16, a 56% improvement. Yura has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 43.2% of 284,439 all-time
21.16
signature single · MPEI Open 2016
74
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRussia
3×321.1629.28
top 43.2%2,410 / 6,475

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

Saint Petersburg Open 2009: 48.38Russia Open 2010: 29.40MPEI Open 2010: 32.96Moscow North-West Open 2011: 28.03Russia Open 2011: 26.83MPEI Open 2011: 24.52Ukraine Open 2012: 23.18Moscow North-West Open 2012: 24.22MPEI Open 2012: 30.02Nelidovo Open 2013: 30.63MPEI Open 2013: 30.80MPEI Open 2014: 28.08Moscow Spring Open 2015: 27.84MPEI Open 2016: 21.16MPEI Open 2017: 29.8721.1648.3829 Aug 200924 Nov 2017

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-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 1.16 away.

Targets move as he improves.