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Zhanat Kazez (Жанат Казез)

4×4 · top 6.1% of 83,917 all-time · competing since June 2018 · 2018KAZE03

Zhanat Kazez (Жанат Казез) has been competing for 8 years. Her best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 34.27, set at Cubing Khan Shatyr Open 2022, puts her in the top 6.1% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 33rd in Kazakhstan. Until November 2010, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since June 2018, she has put 734 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 15.13 in June 2018 to 9.84, a 35% improvement. Zhanat has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 6.1% of 83,917 all-time
34.27
signature single · Cubing Khan Shatyr Open 2022
734
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingKazakhstan
4×434.2741.50
top 6.1%33 / 415
3×39.8411.55
top 7.0%89 / 1,315
5×51:08.631:16.60
top 10.6%20 / 216
Square-113.1215.07
top 12.1%14 / 140
2×23.234.30
top 17.0%171 / 976
Megaminx1:12.831:20.71
top 17.3%38 / 243
7×73:28.023:39.75
top 19.1%11 / 43
6×62:19.972:25.76
top 20.5%13 / 62
Skewb5.577.03
top 22.5%85 / 474
Pyraminx6.527.89
top 24.0%168 / 803
3×3 one-handed26.1631.29
top 37.2%134 / 330
Clock30.42—
early days — 2 solves107 / 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

Semey Open 2018: 15.13KSF Semey City 2018: 13.01Cubing Kazakhstan Nationals 2018: 12.41KSF Ust-Kamenogorsk City 2019: 12.12Cubing Semey Open 2019: 10.46Economics Lyceum Cube 2019: 12.12Cubing Kazakhstan Nationals 2019: 11.26KSF Club Semey 2021: 10.10NIS & KSF OPEN 2022: 11.08Cubing Khan Shatyr Open 2022: 9.84KSF Club Pavlodar 2022: 10.62KSF Club Semey 2022: 10.98Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2022: 10.83Cubing Kazakhstan Nationals 2022: 10.94Pavlodar Open 2023: 10.039.8415.138 Jun 20187 Oct 2023

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-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 4.27 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.84 away.

Targets move as she improves.