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Celal Yılmaz

Skewb · top 6.7% of 73,281 all-time · competing since August 2018 · 2018YILM04

Celal Yılmaz has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 3.32, set at Uşak Open 2022, puts him in the top 6.7% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 29th in Turkey. Until February 2014, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since August 2018, he has put 216 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.97 in August 2018 to 12.06, a 24% improvement. Celal has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 6.7% of 73,281 all-time
3.32
signature single · Uşak Open 2022
216
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingTurkey
Skewb3.325.96
top 6.7%29 / 649
3×312.0615.27
top 14.1%225 / 2,193
2×23.025.79
top 14.5%211 / 1,647
4×41:03.651:27.14
top 40.3%140 / 463
Megaminx2:18.13
top 55.4%62 / 125
3×3 one-handed40.6547.90
top 66.2%299 / 566
5×52:43.123:10.70
top 71.8%129 / 181
3×3 Fewest Moves54 moves
early days — 3 solves54 / 72
Pyraminx18.0326.52
top 89.9%1,053 / 1,188

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

Back to İzmir 2018: 15.97Uşak Open 2018: 12.06Bursa Winter 2019: 13.85Ankara Winter 2019: 15.07Bursa Summer 2019: 13.56Uşak Open 2022: 15.8012.0615.973 Aug 201823 Apr 2022

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.

  • Can Ersoy — met in 48 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
  • Can Gücüyener — met in 38 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
  • Berk Rende — met in 38 rounds, finished ahead 3 times

Next targets

  • A sub-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.32 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.06 away.

Targets move as he improves.