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Mirza Mursalov

3×3 · top 6.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2023 · 2023MURS01

Mirza Mursalov has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.66, set at New Year's Eve in Baku 2025, puts him in the top 6.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 9th in Azerbaijan. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since September 2023, he has put 376 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.03 in September 2023 to 9.66, a 36% improvement. Mirza has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.5% of 284,439 all-time
9.66
signature single · New Year's Eve in Baku 2025
376
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAzerbaijan
3×39.6612.42
top 6.5%9 / 367
4×440.2448.86
top 12.4%4 / 90
Skewb4.315.94
top 13.1%5 / 93
2×23.405.02
top 19.0%37 / 191
5×51:30.811:43.66
top 28.0%4 / 44
Megaminx1:32.301:43.72
top 29.7%4 / 52
Pyraminx7.8710.41
top 35.1%60 / 188
3×3 one-handed28.7331.32
top 43.7%21 / 93
Square-11:06.741:41.44
top 87.5%15 / 16
3×3 Fewest Moves60 moves
early days — 1 solve15 / 20

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

ADA Fall 2023: 15.03Azerbaijan Nationals 2023: 14.29Eagle of the East Azerbaijan 2024: 12.44ACA League I - Sumgait 2024: 10.78ACA League II - Ganja 2024: 11.12ACA League Final - Baku 2024: 11.87Baku Fall Open 2025: 12.55Ganja NxN Day 2025: 12.11New Year's Eve in Baku 2025: 9.66ACA Cube Fest Baku 2026: 10.20Eagle of the East Baku 2026: 12.199.6615.039 Sep 20237 Aug 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.66 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 0.24 away.

Targets move as he improves.