People · United States
Maryam Akelyan
3×3 · top 8.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2021 · 2021AKEL01
Maryam Akelyan has been competing for 5 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.26, set at Berkeley Winter 2024, puts her in the top 8.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,532nd in the United States. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since November 2021, she has put 75 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 13.30 in November 2021 to 10.26, a 23% improvement. Maryam has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.26 | 13.17 | top 8.2% | 4,532 / 59,724 | |
| 4×4 | 1:11.97 | 1:22.43 | top 48.8% | 8,155 / 19,072 | |
| 2×2 | 7.10 | 12.26 | top 61.2% | 25,160 / 40,951 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 20 Nov 2021First competition: CalPoly SLO Fall 2021. A 13.30 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Berkeley April Weekday Tricubealon 2025 · 28 Apr 2025
- Berkeley Spring 2025 · 2 Mar 2025
- Berkeley Winter 2024 · 4 Feb 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Berkeley Summer 2023 · 26 Aug 2023
- Geffen Spring 2022 · 21 May 2022 — 1 personal best set
- San Diego Spring 2022 · 16 Apr 2022 — 1 personal best set
- CalPoly SLO Fall 2021 · 20 Nov 2021
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 her.
- Paul Mahvi — met in 9 rounds, never finished ahead
- Ethan Jan — met in 8 rounds, never finished ahead
- Nolan Yiu — met in 8 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.26 away.
- A sub-1:00 4×4 single — 30,601 people have one; it is 11.97 away.
Targets move as she improves.