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Ali Salavati (علی صلواتی)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 3.0% of 12,294 all-time · competing since September 2011 · 2011SALA04

Ali Salavati (علی صلواتی) has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 23 moves, set at FMC Asia 2018, puts him in the top 3.0% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2nd in Iran. Across 19 competitions since September 2011, he has put 329 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 8 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.30 in September 2011 to 16.75, a 31% improvement. Ali has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 3.0% of 12,294 all-time
23 moves
signature single · FMC Asia 2018
329
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIran
3×3 Fewest Moves23 moves28.00
top 3.0%2 / 55
2×23.365.70
top 18.5%141 / 856
3×316.7519.49
top 30.2%428 / 1,569
3×3 one-handed26.4135.26
top 37.9%127 / 298
3×3 blindfolded3:24.31
top 59.4%21 / 36
4×41:26.951:45.59
top 61.4%184 / 295
Pyraminx15.9621.47
top 85.0%385 / 500
5×54:42.53
top 95.8%132 / 140

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: 24.30Iran Rubikup 2012: 19.86Iran Open 2012: 21.21Avecina Autumn Rubik's Cube Competition 2012: 17.59Iran Summer Cube 2013: 19.22Iran Open 2013: 18.84Iran Autumn Cube 2013: 22.44Summer with Cubers 2014: 16.75Beheshti Cubing Days 2014: 19.22Parax Cubecomp 2015: 19.63Iran Grand Prix 2016: 18.52Iran Nationals 2016: 18.99Iran Open 2017: 19.47Golden Rubik's Cube 2017: 17.2516.7524.301 Sep 201114 Sep 2017

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-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.36 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 1.75 away.

Targets move as he improves.