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Ekmel Efe Şahin

2×2 · top 40.7% of 186,767 all-time · competing since May 2025 · 2025SAHI04

Ekmel Efe Şahin has been competing for a year. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 5.11, set at İstanbul April 2026, puts him in the top 40.7% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 16,344th in the United States. Across 2 competitions since May 2025, he has put 43 official solves on the record across four events. His 2×2 best has come down from 11.46 in May 2025 to 5.11, a 55% improvement. Ekmel has entered two competitions.

2×2
best event — top 40.7% of 186,767 all-time
5.11
signature single · İstanbul April 2026
43
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×25.116.39
top 40.7%16,344 / 40,951
Skewb8.8316.10
top 47.3%8,369 / 18,907
Pyraminx11.1616.48
top 61.7%18,129 / 28,708
3×331.8935.16
top 65.7%39,455 / 59,724

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

İzmir May 2025: 11.46İstanbul April 2026: 5.115.1111.4624 May 202525 Apr 2026

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.11 away.
  • A sub-8 Skewb single — 30,246 people have one; it is 0.83 away.

Targets move as he improves.