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Karim Eltanahy

3×3 · top 69.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2009 · 2009ELTA01

Karim Eltanahy has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 34.02, set at Toronto Open Fall 2010, puts him in the top 69.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7,419th in Canada. Across 5 competitions since September 2009, he has put 52 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 3 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:26.19 in September 2009 to 34.02, a 61% improvement. Karim has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 69.1% of 284,439 all-time
34.02
signature single · Toronto Open Fall 2010
52
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×334.0241.93
top 69.1%7,419 / 10,392
Pyraminx13.3820.13
top 74.9%3,753 / 4,858
2×212.8114.64
top 86.5%6,363 / 7,173

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

Canadian Open 2009: 1:26.19Toronto Open Winter 2010: 40.75Toronto Open Spring 2010: 36.68canadianCUBING CUBEcentric 2010: 37.78Toronto Open Fall 2010: 34.0234.021:26.1919 Sep 200927 Nov 2010

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-30 3×3 single — 177,856 people have one; it is 4.02 away.
  • A sub-12 Pyraminx single — 86,891 people have one; it is 1.38 away.

Targets move as he improves.