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Yurii Hnidko (Юрій Гнідко)

3×3 · top 0.056% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2016 · 2016HNID02

Yurii Hnidko (Юрій Гнідко) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 4.60, set at Cube4fun Lublin February 2026, puts him in the top 0.056% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in Ukraine. Until October 2017, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since July 2016, he has put 1,279 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.99 in July 2016 to 4.60, a 74% improvement. Yurii has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.056% of 284,439 all-time
4.60
signature single · Cube4fun Lublin February 2026
1,279
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
3×34.606.14
top 0.056%1 / 2,868
4×422.0326.30
top 0.19%1 / 867
Pyraminx1.522.51
top 0.44%7 / 1,471
2×20.961.52
top 0.48%7 / 1,894
3×3 one-handed9.7112.10
top 0.86%7 / 755
5×554.7658.40
top 3.3%17 / 425
Skewb4.347.22
top 13.3%114 / 884
Square-114.3118.98
top 14.8%39 / 302
6×62:16.162:32.56
top 18.6%32 / 169
Megaminx1:15.051:27.83
top 18.7%76 / 424
7×74:14.63
top 35.9%48 / 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

Cowboys Summer 2016: 17.99Dnepr Never Fails 2018: 10.18Ukrainian Open 2018: 10.52Mariupol Open 2018: 9.36Smart Cube Fest 2018: 9.04Ukrainian Open 2019: 9.30Smartcube Fest Kyiv 2019: 6.57Cube4fun Double Weekend Warsaw 2023: 6.51Cube4fun Lublin in Staszic 2023: 6.48Cube4fun Double Weekend Lublin II 2023: 5.96Cube4fun in Warsaw 2024: 6.15Cube4fun in Lublin 2024: 5.16Cube4fun Lublin on WEII 2024: 5.37Energy Cube Białołęka 2024: 5.97Cube4fun Cubers Eve Żyrardów 2024: 5.86Cube4fun Lublin Winter 2025: 5.04Cube4fun Warsaw Saturday 2025: 5.64Warm-Up Warsaw 2025: 6.11Szansa Cubing Open Warsaw 2025: 5.24Energy Cube Białołęka 2025: 5.86Cube4fun in Lublin 2025: 5.33Cube4fun Cubers Eve Żyrardów 2025: 5.47Cube4fun Lublin Winter 2026: 6.08Cube4fun Lublin February 2026: 4.60Cube4fun Lublin Spring 2026: 5.444.6017.992 Jul 201619 Apr 2026

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-4 3×3 single — 38 people have one; it is 0.60 away.
  • A sub-20 4×4 single — 42 people have one; it is 2.03 away.

Targets move as he improves.