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Hudson Akarlilar

2×2 · top 1.3% of 186,767 all-time · competing since July 2019 · 2019AKAR03

Hudson Akarlilar has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.27, set at Turkish Summer 2020, puts him in the top 1.3% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 521st in the United States. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since July 2019, he has put 181 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 87% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.54 in July 2019 to 10.38, a 62% improvement. Hudson has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.3% of 186,767 all-time
1.27
signature single · Turkish Summer 2020
181
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 87% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.274.05
top 1.3%521 / 40,951
3×310.3811.32
top 8.6%4,724 / 59,724
4×451.431:02.24
top 26.4%4,072 / 19,072
Skewb6.189.17
top 27.2%4,426 / 18,907
Pyraminx7.499.65
top 31.9%8,921 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed25.9930.21
top 36.8%4,884 / 15,683
Square-11:05.14
early days — 1 solve5,841 / 6,743

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

3rd Coast Cubing 2019: 27.54Music City Speedsolving 2019: 17.20Weston-super-Mare Open 2019: 14.68Trinity Valley Spring 2020: 12.30Manchester Open 2020: 11.51Turkish Summer 2020: 10.3810.3827.5420 Jul 201914 Aug 2020

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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.27 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.38 away.

Targets move as he improves.