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Mehrdad Babakhani (مهرداد باباخانی)

3×3 · top 20.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2012 · 2012BABA04

Mehrdad Babakhani (مهرداد باباخانی) has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.83, set at Iran Summer Cube 2013, puts him in the top 20.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 285th in Iran. Across 3 competitions since December 2012, he has put 120 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.91 in December 2012 to 13.83, a 23% improvement. Mehrdad has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 20.4% of 284,439 all-time
13.83
signature single · Iran Summer Cube 2013
120
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIran
3×313.8315.48
top 20.4%285 / 1,569
2×24.225.96
top 29.3%234 / 856
3×3 one-handed26.6732.31
top 38.5%130 / 298
5×51:45.962:09.33
top 39.9%49 / 140
4×41:04.331:13.57
top 41.0%117 / 295

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

Avecina Autumn Rubik's Cube Competition 2012: 17.91Iran Summer Cube 2013: 13.83Iran Open 2017: 14.7613.8317.916 Dec 201216 Feb 2017

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.83 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.22 away.

Targets move as he improves.