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Mutlu Özçelebi

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 12.2% of 12,294 all-time · competing since April 2013 · 2013OZCE01

Mutlu Özçelebi has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 29 moves, set at Ankara Winter 2019, puts him in the top 12.2% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in Turkey. Across 20 competitions since April 2013, he has put 289 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 5 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 41.75 in April 2013 to 15.46, a 63% improvement. Mutlu has entered 20 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 · Ankara Winter 2019
289
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingTurkey
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves31.67
top 12.2%4 / 72
3×315.4622.36
top 26.0%435 / 2,193
3×3 blindfolded1:39.932:26.39
top 26.5%8 / 43
Pyraminx7.5010.93
top 32.0%283 / 1,188
Clock12.8815.85
top 39.1%57 / 172
Skewb7.9618.43
top 41.0%201 / 649
2×25.227.37
top 42.1%624 / 1,647
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 4 cubes · 35:02
early days — 2 solves5 / 6
3×3 one-handed1:13.15
top 90.3%462 / 566

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

Turkish Open 2013: 41.75Turkish Winter Cup 2014: 24.75ATTJ Cube Day 2015: 23.13Atatürk Cube Day 2016: 20.71Marmara Spring 2018: 20.23Erciyes Weekend 2018: 19.81Back to İzmir 2018: 18.41Ankara Summer 2018: 20.49İstanbul Winter 2018: 24.99Ankara Winter 2019: 15.46İstanbul Summer 2019: 22.4115.4641.7527 Apr 20133 Aug 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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 0.46 away.
  • A sub-1:30 3×3 blindfolded single — 2,810 people have one; it is 9.93 away.

Targets move as he improves.