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Kutay Temel

3×3 · top 8.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2019 · 2019TEME01

Kutay Temel has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.31, set at Ankara June A 2025, puts him in the top 8.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 105th in Turkey. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since February 2019, he has put 649 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 84% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.70 in February 2019 to 10.31, a 52% improvement. Kutay has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.4% of 284,439 all-time
10.31
signature single · Ankara June A 2025
649
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 84% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingTurkey
3×310.3113.05
top 8.4%105 / 2,193
Skewb4.007.31
top 10.9%51 / 649
2×22.765.31
top 11.6%170 / 1,647
Clock9.6811.61
top 23.5%35 / 172
Pyraminx6.9210.53
top 27.2%238 / 1,188
4×457.091:03.50
top 33.2%115 / 463
3×3 one-handed31.1637.97
top 49.2%211 / 566
3×3 blindfolded4:07.02—
early days — 2 solves23 / 43
Megaminx3:12.96—
early days — 1 solve107 / 125
5×53:28.42—
early days — 1 solve167 / 181
3×3 Fewest Moves54 moves—
early days — 1 solve54 / 72

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

Ankara Winter 2019: 21.70Ankara Fall 2019: 16.87Ankara Bulut 2019: 15.86Turkish Cubing Tour Ankara 2020: 13.19Ankara Fall 2020: 13.63New Beginnings in Ankara 2024: 18.14Cube Clash in Ankara 2024: 14.47İzmir Open 2024: 13.72Ankara June 2024: 14.72Bursa Summer 2024: 13.21Ankara August 2024: 13.41İzmir Open 2025: 11.15Ankara April 2025: 13.58Ankara May B 2025: 12.01Ankara June A 2025: 10.31Ankara Gloria Weekend 2025: 10.47Loba Ankara December 2025: 10.80Loba January Ankara 2026: 12.9410.3121.7023 Feb 201924 Jan 2026

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.31 away.
  • A sub-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 1.00 away.

Targets move as he improves.