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Deniz Atak

3×3 · top 0.47% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2010 · 2010ATAK01

Deniz Atak has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.98, set at Richmond Spring 2019, puts him in the top 0.47% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 312th in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 59 competitions since December 2010, he has put 1,834 official solves on the record across eleven 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. His 3×3 best has come down from 51.59 in December 2010 to 5.98, an 88% improvement. Deniz has entered 59 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.47% of 284,439 all-time
5.98
signature single · Richmond Spring 2019
1,834
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 standingUnited States
3×35.988.35
top 0.47%312 / 59,724
Megaminx50.4458.88
top 5.3%374 / 7,841
4×434.0939.87
top 5.9%919 / 19,072
2×22.434.00
top 8.2%3,242 / 40,951
5×51:08.161:17.03
top 10.3%810 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed17.7222.88
top 14.4%1,871 / 15,683
Pyraminx5.8211.41
top 18.7%4,959 / 28,708
6×62:17.552:35.75
top 19.2%678 / 4,196
7×73:35.293:43.00
top 21.6%615 / 3,184
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves41.33
top 37.3%810 / 2,040
Skewb29.4439.83
top 96.9%18,525 / 18,907

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

River Hill Fall 2010: 51.59Washington DC Winter 2011: 26.00River Hill Spring 2011: 17.96United States National Championships 2011: 15.71Liberty Science Center Open 2011: 14.30River Hill Winter 2012: 9.81Harvard Spring 2012: 13.44River Hill Summer 2012: 10.11Chesapeake Science Point Fall 2012: 10.75River Hill Winter 2013: 11.93Chesapeake Science Point Fall 2013: 10.94River Hill Summer 2014: 9.42Virginia Open Fall 2014: 10.50Slow N Steady Winter 2016: 9.59Virginia Open Spring 2017: 9.67Slow N Steady Summer 2017: 9.29Gobbler Cube Day 2017: 8.98Maryland 2017: 8.65Raleigh Rubik's Rally 2017: 7.51Northern Neck Winter 2018: 8.18Wolfpack Winter 2018: 8.71Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 9.03Slow N Steady Winter 2018: 8.38NovaCube 2018: 8.65River Hill Spring 2018: 7.88WFS Cubing Spring 2018: 7.26RVA Spring 2018: 6.96Tea Time Spring 2018: 7.67Rally In The Valley 2018: 7.12Maryland 2018: 7.74Fredericksburg Summer Open 2018: 6.51Pennsylvania 2018: 7.83Slow N Steady Summer 2018: 7.87RVAutumn 2018: 7.85TJHSST Fall 2018: 8.08Northern Neck Winter 2019: 7.87Gobbler Cube Day Winter 2019: 6.43CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 8.38VES Spring 2019: 7.08Woodberry Forest School Cubing 2019: 7.80River Hill Spring 2019: 7.78Richmond Spring 2019: 5.98Northern Virginia Summer 2019: 7.58Warm Up Sydney 2019: 8.26WCA World Championship 2019: 8.39Rally in the Valley 2019: 7.73CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 8.15Slow N Steady Summer 2019: 7.92Clash at Carlisle Fall 2019: 7.69Solving Hunger Virginia 2019: 7.85Gobbler Cube Day Fall 2019: 8.68TJHSST Fall 2019: 7.80Michigan Cubing Club Delta 2019: 7.40Northern Neck Winter 2020: 7.64Potomac Speedcubing 2020: 7.28MLWGS Winter 2020: 7.97Country Roads Martinsburg 2020: 7.54Dunkirk Winter 2023: 7.03Richmond Spring 2023: 7.855.9851.5911 Dec 20108 Apr 2023

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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.98 away.
  • A sub-50 Megaminx single — 1,776 people have one; it is 0.44 away.

Targets move as he improves.