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Rihanna Taqipour (ریحانا تقی پور)

3×3 · top 5.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2022 · 2022TAGH01

Rihanna Taqipour (ریحانا تقی پور) has been competing for 5 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.10, set at Fardis Cubing 2024, puts her in the top 5.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 64th in Iran. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since February 2022, she has put 137 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 10.42 in February 2022 to 9.10, a 13% improvement. Rihanna has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.1% of 284,439 all-time
9.10
signature single · Fardis Cubing 2024
137
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIran
3×39.1010.38
top 5.1%64 / 1,569
Megaminx1:13.101:25.09
top 17.5%17 / 72
Pyraminx6.008.03
top 20.0%84 / 500
4×448.3951.30
top 22.6%67 / 295
2×25.456.45
top 44.8%358 / 856
5×52:05.76
early days — 2 solves67 / 140

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

Welcome Back Iran 2022: 10.42ViraCup 2023: 9.83Hooshinoo Summer 2023: 9.23Chekaad Autumn 2023: 10.42Hooshinoo Autumn 2023: 9.55Semums Cubing 2024: 9.42Fardis Cubing 2024: 9.109.1010.4218 Feb 202228 Nov 2024

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.10 away.
  • A sub-1:00 Megaminx single — 3,483 people have one; it is 13.10 away.

Targets move as she improves.