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Ali Atashi (علی آتشی)

3×3 · top 0.91% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2011 · 2011ATAS01

Ali Atashi (علی آتشی) has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.57, set at Chekaad Summer 2019, puts him in the top 0.91% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 11th in Iran. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since September 2011, he has put 895 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.63 in September 2011 to 6.57, a 67% improvement. Ali has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.91% of 284,439 all-time
6.57
signature single · Chekaad Summer 2019
895
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIran
3×36.578.48
top 0.91%11 / 1,569
4×427.1732.19
top 1.4%2 / 295
3×3 one-handed13.5016.09
top 5.2%21 / 298
5×51:03.911:16.17
top 7.7%5 / 140
2×22.463.68
top 8.5%61 / 856
Pyraminx9.5312.07
top 49.3%211 / 500
3×3 blindfolded3:25.90—
top 59.9%22 / 36
Skewb15.8532.63
top 80.9%116 / 152

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

Iran Open 2011: 19.63Iran Rubikup 2012: 12.29Iran Open 2012: 11.30Avecina Autumn Rubik's Cube Competition 2012: 9.86Iran Summer Cube 2013: 10.63Iran Open 2013: 9.03CubeComp I Iran 2014: 9.27Beheshti Cubing Days 2014: 8.58Parax Cubecomp 2015: 9.18Iran Open 2016: 9.21Iran Nationals 2016: 8.06Iran Open 2017: 9.36Chekaad Summer 2017: 8.22Golden Rubik's Cube 2017: 9.05Chekaad Summer 2018: 7.78Icy Summer 2018: 8.10Iran Academy 2018: 7.68Alborz Green Cup 2019: 7.79Tehran Summer 2019: 8.09İstanbul Summer 2019: 7.92Chekaad Summer 2019: 6.57Kite Autumn 2019: 9.026.5719.631 Sep 201129 Nov 2019

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 0.57 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 2.17 away.

Targets move as he improves.