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Amir Hossein Nafisi (امیر حسین نفیسی)

Pyraminx · top 0.78% of 129,321 all-time · competing since October 2012 · 2012NAFI01

Amir Hossein Nafisi (امیر حسین نفیسی) has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.77, set at Mashhad Winter 2024, puts him in the top 0.78% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3rd in Iran. Until April 2012, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 28 competitions since October 2012, he has put 648 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 86% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 7 DNFs. His Pyraminx best has come down from 7.69 in October 2012 to 1.77, a 77% improvement. Amir has entered 28 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.78% of 129,321 all-time
1.77
signature single · Mashhad Winter 2024
648
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 86% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIran
Pyraminx1.773.72
top 0.78%3 / 500
2×21.613.30
top 2.6%14 / 856
Clock7.289.25
top 12.1%5 / 51
3×312.3716.40
top 15.2%211 / 1,569
Skewb5.416.47
top 21.3%29 / 152
4×41:01.841:11.32
top 38.5%109 / 295
Megaminx1:59.302:12.42
top 45.3%32 / 72
3×3 one-handed29.5350.80
top 45.6%152 / 298
3×3 Fewest Moves44 moves58.00
top 62.5%30 / 55
5×52:39.432:53.37
top 70.2%96 / 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 2012: 7.69Iran Summer Cube 2013: 3.96Iran Open 2013: 3.58Iran Autumn Cube 2013: 3.08CubeComp I Iran 2014: 3.90Summer with Cubers 2014: 3.59Beheshti Cubing Days 2014: 3.50Parax Cubecomp 2015: 3.22Iran Open 2016: 3.03Iran Grand Prix 2016: 4.32Iran Open 2017: 3.11Chekaad Summer 2017: 3.85Golden Rubik's Cube 2017: 3.84Aftab Cubing Days 2018: 2.19Welcome Back Iran 2022: 3.81ViraCup 2023: 2.81Kerman Summer 2023: 3.03Chekaad Autumn 2023: 3.15Hooshinoo Autumn 2023: 3.04Mashhad Winter 2024: 1.77Semums Cubing 2024: 2.84Hooshinoo Open 2024: 3.64Fardis Cubing 2024: 3.22Yalda Cubing 2024: 2.651.777.6924 Oct 201220 Dec 2024

Best single per competition, Pyraminx. 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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.77 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.61 away.

Targets move as he improves.