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Yurii Riabov (Юрій Рябов)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 0.45% of 12,294 all-time · competing since November 2018 · 2018RIAB01

Yurii Riabov (Юрій Рябов) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 19 moves, set at Kyiv NxN Summer 2024, puts him in the top 0.45% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3rd in Ukraine. Across 81 competitions since November 2018, he has put 2,909 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.60 in November 2018 to 7.47, a 68% improvement. Yurii has entered 81 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 0.45% of 12,294 all-time
19 moves
signature single · Kyiv NxN Summer 2024
2,909
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUkraine
3×3 Fewest Moves19 moves20.33
top 0.45%3 / 222
3×37.4711.31
top 1.9%61 / 2,868
Square-17.5911.20
top 2.5%7 / 302
2×21.643.28
top 2.8%56 / 1,894
Pyraminx3.155.76
top 4.2%68 / 1,471
Megaminx52.1558.15
top 6.1%28 / 424
Skewb3.516.62
top 7.8%66 / 884
4×436.3542.96
top 8.0%78 / 867
3×3 one-handed15.7820.89
top 9.7%91 / 755
Clock6.918.90
top 10.6%44 / 347
5×51:10.671:19.43
top 12.1%55 / 425
6×62:18.732:22.22
top 19.8%37 / 169
3×3 blindfolded1:24.011:42.33
top 21.0%35 / 177
3×3 Multi-Blind8 of 8 cubes · 52:32—
top 23.8%18 / 67
7×73:46.014:04.92
top 25.7%36 / 135
4×4 blindfolded9:04.9110:59.00
top 51.9%18 / 27
5×5 blindfolded22:41.00—
early days — 3 solves9 / 17

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

Smart Cube Fest 2018: 23.60Zhytomyr Cube Battle 2019: 17.21Ukrainian Open 2019: 20.08Smartcube Fest Kyiv 2019: 14.41Cubes Masters Zhytomyr 2019: 10.88U24 Open September 2022: 12.41U24 Open October 2022: 12.47U24 Open November 2022: 12.98U24 Nationals 2022: 11.88U24 Tetiana Day 2023: 10.53Ternopil Science Cubing 2023: 11.58Nikita Kovalchuk Memorial 2023: 11.55Ukrainian Open 2023: 11.52U24 Globus Open July 2023: 9.31That is Lviv 2023: 11.27U24 Pyramania Open 2023: 12.53Ukrainian Nationals 2023: 7.47U24 Tetiana Day 2024: 9.84Chernivtsi Open 2024: 10.25Mriy Diy Cubing Lviv 2024: 10.20Kyiv NxN Summer 2024: 10.06Uzhhorod Open 2024: 10.33Kyiv Blind Side 2024: 10.50Ukrainian Nationals 2024: 11.19Kyiv Side Events Winter 2024: 11.27U24 Tetiana Day Kyiv 2025: 9.95Kyiv Big & Blind Winter 2025: 10.42Ukrainian Open 2025: 9.73MriyDiy Cubing Lviv 2025: 9.32Kyiv Blind Side Summer 2025: 10.57Kyiv NxN Summer 2025: 10.31Kyiv Side Events Autumn 2025: 10.40Ukrainian Nationals 2025: 10.65Kyiv Blind Side Autumn 2025: 10.29U24 Tetiana Day Kyiv 2026: 11.58Kyiv Blind Side Winter 2026: 10.23River Mall Kyiv 2026: 11.08Kyiv NxN Spring 2026: 10.51Ekvator Rivne Open 2026: 10.40Twist 'N Turn Kyiv 2026: 11.75Victoria Gardens Kyiv 2026: 10.32Vinnytsia Open 2026: 9.747.4723.609 Nov 20181 Aug 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.47 away.
  • A sub-6 Square-1 single — 201 people have one; it is 1.59 away.

Targets move as he improves.