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Sameer Mahmood

3×3 · top 0.44% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2013 · 2013MAHM02

Sameer Mahmood has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.91, set at August Bank Holiday Competition 2017, puts him in the top 0.44% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 43rd in the United Kingdom. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since August 2013, he has put 1,293 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 85% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.62 in August 2013 to 5.91, a 44% improvement. Sameer has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.44% of 284,439 all-time
5.91
signature single · August Bank Holiday Competition 2017
1,293
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 85% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×35.918.84
top 0.44%43 / 6,689
4×427.3431.91
top 1.5%42 / 2,071
2×21.351.96
top 1.5%121 / 4,895
3×3 one-handed11.0714.36
top 1.9%37 / 1,851
5×558.161:04.67
top 4.6%65 / 1,151
6×61:44.721:59.60
top 5.4%34 / 548
7×72:42.322:54.20
top 6.0%28 / 459
Skewb3.647.47
top 8.6%195 / 2,421
Megaminx1:01.571:04.26
top 10.8%135 / 966
3×3 blindfolded3:23.51—
early days — 2 solves221 / 311
Square-11:05.40—
early days — 1 solve691 / 778

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

Guildford Open 2013: 10.62Cuthberts Open 2013: 9.30UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 8.78Nottingham Open 2014: 8.61Welwyn Garden City Open 2014: 8.87Oxford Open 2014: 8.93Welcome To Cambridge 2014: 9.24Rubik's Cube European Championships 2014: 8.75ABHC 2014: 8.16UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2014: 8.38Welcome Back to Guildford 2015: 8.65The Glorious North 2015: 8.18August Bank Holiday Competition 2015: 8.30UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 8.36Macclesfield Open 2016: 8.46Manchester Open 2017: 8.03August Bank Holiday Competition 2017: 5.91August Bank Holiday Competition 2018: 7.32Weston-super-Mare Open 2019: 8.525.9110.6224 Aug 201323 Nov 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.91 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 2.34 away.

Targets move as he improves.