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Karam Al-Robaie

Skewb · top 0.81% of 74,164 all-time · competing since April 2016 · 2016ALRO01

Karam Al-Robaie has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 1.74, set at Newcastle-under-Lyme Open 2017, puts him in the top 0.81% of the 74,164 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 16th in the United Kingdom. Until July 2015, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 28 competitions since April 2016, he has put 1,539 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 67% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.03 in April 2016 to 7.86, a 64% improvement. Karam has entered 28 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 0.81% of 74,164 all-time
1.74
signature single · Newcastle-under-Lyme Open 2017
1,539
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
Skewb1.742.96
top 0.81%16 / 2,439
2×21.152.39
top 0.91%76 / 4,946
Square-17.5211.78
top 2.4%29 / 789
3×37.869.31
top 2.6%212 / 6,785
4×431.6335.86
top 3.9%102 / 2,112
3×3 Fewest Moves25 moves27.00
top 5.1%29 / 372
Pyraminx3.785.80
top 6.6%264 / 3,704
3×3 one-handed14.4717.17
top 7.1%141 / 1,861
5×51:09.801:20.32
top 11.6%162 / 1,167
Megaminx1:07.561:18.55
top 14.3%184 / 998
Clock9.0110.46
top 19.9%277 / 1,255
6×62:39.382:53.04
top 30.5%186 / 560
3×3 blindfolded2:58.86—
top 52.1%200 / 315

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

Exeter Open 2016: 22.03North London Open 2016: 16.24Macclesfield Open 2016: 13.41Guildford Open 2016: 12.90UK Championship 2016: 11.71Birmingham Open 2016: 12.17Peterborough Open 2017: 11.00Newcastle-under-Lyme Open 2017: 9.95Crawley Open 2017: 9.71London Open 2017: 9.56Guildford Open 2017: 9.13UK Championship 2017: 8.83Welsh Open 2018: 8.36Manchester Open 2018: 9.21High Wycombe Open 2018: 8.38Hastings Open 2018: 8.47Peterborough Open 2018: 8.20Stratford-upon-Avon Open 2018: 8.12UK Championship 2018: 8.87Weston-super-Mare Open 2018: 7.86Fontwell Open 2019: 8.19Welsh Open 2019: 8.02British Summer Open 2019: 7.91UK Championship 2019: 9.157.8622.032 Apr 201625 Oct 2019

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.

  • Robert Yau — met in 309 rounds, finished ahead 78 times
  • Callum Hales-Jepp — met in 307 rounds, finished ahead 110 times
  • Eli Jay — met in 307 rounds, finished ahead 95 times

Next targets

  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.74 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.15 away.

Targets move as he improves.