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Saeed Mostafavi Layegh (سعید مصطفوی لایق)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 1.0% of 12,294 all-time · competing since September 2011 · 2011LAYE01

Saeed Mostafavi Layegh (سعید مصطفوی لایق) has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 20 moves, set at FMC Asia 2017, puts him in the top 1.0% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in Iran. Across 26 competitions since September 2011, he has put 375 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 91% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.56 in September 2011 to 10.12, a 30% improvement. Saeed has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 1.0% of 12,294 all-time
20 moves
signature single · FMC Asia 2017
375
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIran
3×3 Fewest Moves20 moves28.33
top 1.0%1 / 55
3×310.1213.03
top 7.8%105 / 1,569
3×3 blindfolded1:05.511:17.29
top 14.8%5 / 36
2×23.345.11
top 18.3%139 / 856
4×455.801:01.07
top 31.7%89 / 295
5×51:51.152:09.25
top 43.4%55 / 140
3×3 one-handed47.0553.20
top 73.8%248 / 298
Pyraminx14.7820.60
top 81.0%361 / 500

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

Iran Open 2011: 14.56Iran Rubikup 2012: 11.82Iran Open 2012: 11.69Beheshti Cubing Days 2014: 12.34Parax Cubecomp 2015: 10.85Iran Grand Prix 2016: 12.57Iran Nationals 2016: 12.03Aftab Cubing Days 2018: 10.12ViraCup 2023: 12.75Kerman Summer 2023: 13.92Hooshinoo Summer 2023: 13.95Chekaad Autumn 2023: 12.49Hooshinoo Autumn 2023: 12.89Mashhad Winter 2024: 15.24Semums Cubing 2024: 14.02Hooshinoo Open 2024: 12.48Fardis Cubing 2024: 14.91Yalda Cubing 2024: 12.31Iran Golden Cuber 2025: 13.1210.1215.241 Sep 201128 Feb 2025

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.12 away.
  • A sub-1:00 3×3 blindfolded single — 1,593 people have one; it is 5.51 away.

Targets move as he improves.