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Manlai Tumurbaatar (Төмөрбаатар Манлай)

2×2 · top 1.7% of 189,179 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022TUMU01

Manlai Tumurbaatar (Төмөрбаатар Манлай) has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.39, set at QY Mongolian Championship 2024, puts him in the top 1.7% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 14th in Mongolia. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 24 competitions since October 2022, he has put 502 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 97% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.94 in October 2022 to 7.34, a 61% improvement. Manlai has entered 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.7% of 189,179 all-time
1.39
signature single · QY Mongolian Championship 2024
502
official solves on the record
17%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 97% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMongolia
2×21.393.01
top 1.7%14 / 1,734
3×37.3410.66
top 1.8%26 / 2,024
Clock8.459.39
top 17.2%17 / 144
Pyraminx5.988.45
top 19.9%144 / 1,585
Skewb8.9616.95
top 48.2%136 / 331
4×41:56.55—
early days — 1 solve180 / 204

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

Mongolia Championship 2022: 18.94Mongolian Open 2022: 15.11Ulaanbaatar Spring 2023: 16.95Mongolian Championship 2023: 11.93Zamiin-Uud Open 2023: 10.56Sainshand Open 2023: 12.32Ulaanbaatar Cubing Challenge Dec 2023: 11.65Ulaanbaatar Cubing Challenge Jan 2024: 11.92Ulaanbaatar Spring 2024: 10.91GAN Mongolian Open 2024: 10.31QY Mongolian Championship 2024: 10.18Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 9.84Ulaanbaatar Winter 2024: 10.43CubingMGL Coldest Capital 2025: 9.98CubingMGL Lunar New Year 2025: 9.95Ulaanbaatar Spring 2025: 10.03Ulaanbaatar Nomad Mazaalai 2025: 9.77Bayankhongor Open 2025: 7.34Govi-Altai Cube Day 2025: 10.31Umnugovi Cube Day 2025: 10.01Ulaanbaatar Summer 2025: 9.49Zamiin-Uud Cup 2026: 12.31Ulaanbaatar Summer 2026: 10.98Mongolian Open 2026: 9.377.3418.9415 Oct 20223 Oct 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-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.39 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.34 away.

Targets move as he improves.