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Tahir Palad

3×3 · top 20.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022PALA08

Tahir Palad has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.90, set at Westfries Open 2022, puts him in the top 20.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 254th in South Africa. Across 1 competition since October 2022, he has put 22 official solves on the record across three events.

3×3
best event — top 20.6% of 284,439 all-time
13.90
signature single · Westfries Open 2022
22
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
3×313.9015.58
top 20.6%254 / 2,164
2×24.566.75
top 33.7%355 / 1,510
Square-146.06
early days — 2 solves88 / 118

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 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.90 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.56 away.

Targets move as he improves.