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Sulaiman Elias

3×3 · top 4.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2015 · 2015ELIA08

Sulaiman Elias has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.01, set at Beaconhouse Malaysia Cube Open 2022, puts him in the top 4.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 244th in Malaysia. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since December 2015, he has put 379 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.07 in December 2015 to 9.01, a 50% improvement. Sulaiman has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.9% of 284,439 all-time
9.01
signature single · Beaconhouse Malaysia Cube Open 2022
379
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMalaysia
3×39.0111.31
top 4.9%244 / 3,773
5×51:00.381:20.59
top 5.7%49 / 617
2×22.195.00
top 6.1%147 / 2,541
4×436.7943.28
top 8.5%143 / 1,219
3×3 one-handed16.2620.03
top 10.8%159 / 1,327
6×62:26.452:42.96
top 23.8%78 / 232
Skewb5.867.29
top 24.7%302 / 1,053
7×74:10.654:27.34
top 34.5%91 / 188
Pyraminx13.3819.91
top 74.9%1,421 / 1,723

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

Malaysian Cube Open 2015: 18.07IsYou Cube Open 2016: 14.51INTI IU Open 2016: 12.91Malaysia Cube Open 2016: 11.56Putra Speedcubing Challenge 2017: 13.62Malaysian Cube Championship 2017: 11.87Malaysia 10th Anniversary Cube Open 2019: 10.11Petaling Jaya Cubing Comeback 2022: 10.33YJ Malaysia Cube Open 2022: 10.09Beaconhouse Malaysia Cube Open 2022: 9.01UTM Speedcubing Open 2023: 9.57Penang Cube Masters 2023: 9.989.0118.0718 Dec 201518 Nov 2023

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.01 away.
  • A sub-1:00 5×5 single — 2,252 people have one; it is 0.38 away.

Targets move as he improves.