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Ahmet Berkalp Tarakçı

3×3 · top 0.79% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2017 · 2017TARA01

Ahmet Berkalp Tarakçı has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.42, set at November Weekend İstanbul 2025, puts him in the top 0.79% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 9th in Turkey. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 29 competitions since January 2017, he has put 1,851 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 87% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.61 in January 2017 to 6.42, a 74% improvement. Ahmet has entered 29 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.79% of 284,439 all-time
6.42
signature single · November Weekend İstanbul 2025
1,851
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 87% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingTurkey
3×36.427.84
top 0.79%9 / 2,193
4×426.5630.63
top 1.2%4 / 463
2×21.983.07
top 4.6%63 / 1,647
3×3 one-handed13.3218.35
top 4.9%16 / 566
5×51:01.551:05.58
top 6.4%10 / 181
Pyraminx4.568.19
top 10.6%95 / 1,188
Skewb4.798.21
top 16.6%73 / 649
Megaminx1:19.961:28.15
top 21.8%22 / 125
6×62:34.842:44.37
top 28.1%13 / 63
7×73:57.784:24.94
top 29.8%11 / 59
Clock11.1112.30
top 30.6%44 / 172
Square-122.5027.43
top 33.5%40 / 149

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

Turkish Winter Cup 2017: 24.61İzmir Open 2018: 13.27Marmara Spring 2018: 10.95Back to İzmir 2018: 7.95Ankara Summer 2018: 10.23İstanbul Winter 2018: 10.21Bursa Winter 2019: 8.78İstanbul Spring 2019: 8.43İzmir Summer 2019: 8.80İstanbul Summer 2019: 8.09Merter Final 2019: 8.56Edukent Weekend 2022: 7.36Qubes Don' Lie İstanbul 2022: 8.28Atatürk Cube Weekend 2022: 7.96Sweet November İstanbul 2022: 8.04HASAL İstanbul 2023: 8.37Back to İstanbul 2023: 7.91Turkish Nationals 2024: 7.96İstanbul December 2024: 8.39İstanbul January 2025: 7.01MBA February 2025: 7.14İstanbul April 2025: 8.41Bursa June 2025: 8.29Pre-Nats İstanbul 2025: 7.22Back to School İstanbul 2025: 7.53İstanbul October 2025: 7.35November Weekend İstanbul 2025: 6.42Loba January Ankara 2026: 8.42Bursa Summer 2026: 7.166.4224.6128 Jan 20174 Jul 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 0.42 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 1.56 away.

Targets move as he improves.