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Mehmet Barın Erturan

3×3 · top 1.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2016 · 2016ERTU01

Mehmet Barın Erturan has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.36, set at Sınav Cube Weekend 2022, puts him in the top 1.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 22nd in Turkey. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since July 2016, he has put 678 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 72% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.14 in July 2016 to 7.36, a 39% improvement. Mehmet has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.8% of 284,439 all-time
7.36
signature single · Sınav Cube Weekend 2022
678
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingTurkey
3×37.368.94
top 1.8%22 / 2,193
2×21.502.29
top 2.2%16 / 1,647
3×3 one-handed15.0819.60
top 8.3%26 / 566
4×439.7950.11
top 11.9%36 / 463
Megaminx1:16.381:22.57
top 19.5%19 / 125
5×51:24.201:31.55
top 22.6%32 / 181
Pyraminx8.6714.46
top 42.0%396 / 1,188
6×63:52.56
top 63.0%34 / 63
3×3 blindfolded4:25.65
early days — 1 solve27 / 43

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

Atatürk Cube Day 2016: 12.14Turkish Winter Cup 2017: 7.61World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 11.14İzmir Open 2018: 7.43Marmara Spring 2018: 8.36Back to İzmir 2018: 7.78İstanbul Winter 2018: 8.39Bursa Winter 2019: 7.82Eskişehir Spring 2019: 8.16İzmir Spring 2019: 7.77Good Old Days Ankara 2019: 7.76İzmir Summer 2019: 8.36İzmir Open 2020: 8.19Sınav Cube Weekend 2022: 7.36Massy Palais'Open A 2022: 8.56Ankara July 2023: 8.537.3612.1416 Jul 20168 Jul 2023

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.36 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.50 away.

Targets move as he improves.