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Mehdi Pourmotalleb (مهدی پورمطلب)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 12.2% of 12,294 all-time · competing since September 2011 · 2011POUR01

Mehdi Pourmotalleb (مهدی پورمطلب) has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 29 moves, set at IranFMC 2015, puts him in the top 12.2% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 9th in Iran. Across 24 competitions since September 2011, he has put 316 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 86% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 6 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.84 in September 2011 to 13.83, a 27% improvement. Mehdi has entered 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 12.2% of 12,294 all-time
29 moves
signature single · IranFMC 2015
316
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 86% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIran
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves32.67
top 12.2%9 / 55
2×23.136.01
top 15.8%115 / 856
3×313.8318.44
top 20.4%285 / 1,569
Pyraminx6.9412.56
top 27.4%105 / 500
4×41:02.701:17.30
top 39.4%113 / 295
5×52:52.713:26.83
top 75.6%102 / 140
3×3 one-handed57.911:11.73
top 82.7%266 / 298
Clock29.1136.59
top 83.3%38 / 51
Skewb17.3220.22
top 84.7%123 / 152

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

Iran Open 2011: 18.84Iran Rubikup 2012: 21.76Iran Open 2012: 21.47Beheshti Cubing Days 2014: 16.44Parax Cubecomp 2015: 14.21Iran Grand Prix 2016: 17.92Iran Nationals 2016: 16.44Chekaad Summer 2017: 14.61Aftab Cubing Days 2018: 13.83Chekaad Summer 2018: 17.02Icy Summer 2018: 16.37Tehran Summer 2019: 18.52Chekaad Summer 2019: 17.17Kite Autumn 2019: 16.5813.8321.761 Sep 201129 Nov 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.13 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.83 away.

Targets move as he improves.