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Soheil Lotfi (سهیل لطفی)

3×3 · top 2.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2013 · 2013LOTF01

Soheil Lotfi (سهیل لطفی) has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.87, set at Chekaad Summer 2018, puts him in the top 2.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 37th in Iran. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since August 2013, he has put 863 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 52% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.25 in August 2013 to 7.87, a 66% improvement. Soheil has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.6% of 284,439 all-time
7.87
signature single · Chekaad Summer 2018
863
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIran
3×37.879.78
top 2.6%37 / 1,569
4×431.5539.57
top 3.8%7 / 295
2×22.093.70
top 5.4%32 / 856
3×3 one-handed15.2517.11
top 8.6%33 / 298
Skewb3.906.20
top 10.2%15 / 152
5×51:09.361:14.87
top 11.2%12 / 140
Pyraminx5.206.97
top 14.4%66 / 500
Megaminx1:12.111:23.40
top 16.9%16 / 72
6×62:45.472:55.14
top 33.7%10 / 34
7×74:34.165:06.46
top 42.5%10 / 28
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves52.33
top 44.7%20 / 55

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 Summer Cube 2013: 23.25CubeComp I Iran 2014: 16.61Summer with Cubers 2014: 14.86Beheshti Cubing Days 2014: 14.16Parax Cubecomp 2015: 12.58IranPuzzle Cube Challenge 2015: 10.81Iran Open 2016: 12.07Iran Grand Prix 2016: 9.41Iran Nationals 2016: 9.67Emirates Open 2017: 9.08Iran Open 2017: 10.88Chekaad Summer 2017: 9.91Golden Rubik's Cube 2017: 9.07Aftab Cubing Days 2018: 9.57Marmara Spring 2018: 10.03Chekaad Summer 2018: 7.87Icy Summer 2018: 9.17Iran Academy 2018: 9.22Alborz Green Cup 2019: 10.31Chekaad Summer 2019: 9.15Kite Autumn 2019: 8.557.8723.2522 Aug 201329 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.87 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 1.55 away.

Targets move as he improves.