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Alp Gürbüzer

3×3 · top 3.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2025 · 2025GURB02

Alp Gürbüzer has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.47, set at Bursa Summer 2026, puts him in the top 3.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 49th in Turkey. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since April 2025, he has put 313 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 82% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.19 in April 2025 to 8.47, a 56% improvement. Alp has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.7% of 284,439 all-time
8.47
signature single · Bursa Summer 2026
313
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 82% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingTurkey
3×38.4710.13
top 3.7%49 / 2,193
2×22.553.46
top 9.4%142 / 1,647
Pyraminx4.466.24
top 10.0%89 / 1,188
Clock12.7414.63
top 38.5%56 / 172
3×3 one-handed27.5032.97
top 40.6%146 / 566
Skewb8.409.50
top 44.3%221 / 649

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

İstanbul April 2025: 19.19İstanbul May 2025: 16.62Pre-Nats İstanbul 2025: 14.78Turkish Nationals 2025: 12.92Back to School İstanbul 2025: 12.34İstanbul October 2025: 12.47November Weekend İstanbul 2025: 10.15İstanbul April 2026: 10.07Bursa Summer 2026: 8.478.4719.1912 Apr 20254 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.47 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.55 away.

Targets move as he improves.