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Armin Askari

3×3 · top 8.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2010 · 2010ASKA01

Armin Askari has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.41, set at Berkeley Winter 2015, puts him in the top 8.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 803rd in Canada. Until February 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since January 2010, he has put 352 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.80 in January 2010 to 10.41, a 56% improvement. Armin has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.7% of 284,439 all-time
10.41
signature single · Berkeley Winter 2015
352
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×310.4113.14
top 8.7%803 / 10,392
3×3 one-handed18.6221.55
top 16.7%351 / 2,620
2×24.528.22
top 33.2%2,271 / 7,173

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

Toronto Open Winter 2010: 23.80Toronto Open Fall 2010: 16.18Toronto Open Winter 2011: 14.05Toronto Open Spring 2011: 13.80canadianCUBING CUBEcentric 2011: 13.55Canadian Open 2011: 12.66Berkeley Fall 2013: 13.09Caltech Fall Open 2013: 10.63Berkeley Winter 2014: 11.06Berkeley Mind Sports 2014: 11.08Berkeley Spring 2014: 12.68Battle of Waterloo 2014: 13.05Berkeley Summer 2014: 11.38Berkeley Fall 2014: 12.75Berkeley Winter 2015: 10.41Berkeley Summer 2015: 12.34Hayward Rubik's Rumble 2015: 11.16Berkeley Fall 2015: 12.90Berkeley Winter 2016: 12.24Berkeley Spring 2016: 12.05Berkeley Summer 2016: 11.74Berkeley Fall 2016: 12.80Armin Open 2017: 13.05Berkeley Winter 2017: 13.99Berkeley Spring 2017: 11.8910.4123.8030 Jan 201015 Apr 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.41 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 3.62 away.

Targets move as he improves.