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Tolga Kaan Kantarcı

3×3 one-handed · top 0.57% of 73,695 all-time · competing since March 2018 · 2018KANT01

Tolga Kaan Kantarcı has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 9.14, set at Frozen Cubes İstanbul 2022, puts him in the top 0.57% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3rd in Turkey. Until November 2013, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 33 competitions since March 2018, he has put 1,000 official solves on the record across eight 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 12.30 in March 2018 to 6.39, a 48% improvement. Tolga has entered 33 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.57% of 73,695 all-time
9.14
signature single · Frozen Cubes İstanbul 2022
1,000
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 standingTurkey
3×3 one-handed9.1410.13
top 0.57%3 / 566
3×36.397.98
top 0.76%7 / 2,193
3×3 Fewest Moves22 moves33.00
top 2.2%1 / 72
2×21.823.27
top 3.7%47 / 1,647
4×442.2653.53
top 14.8%46 / 463
3×3 blindfolded2:09.95—
top 36.6%11 / 43
5×51:59.352:12.38
top 48.9%80 / 181
Square-131.9647.10
top 53.2%70 / 149

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

Marmara Spring 2018: 12.30Back to İzmir 2018: 9.12Ankara Summer 2018: 9.18İstanbul Winter 2018: 8.25Bursa Winter 2019: 6.76İstanbul Spring 2019: 7.44Eskişehir Spring 2019: 7.45Bursa Summer 2019: 6.91Ankara Fall 2019: 7.85Merter Final 2019: 7.13İzmir Open 2020: 7.08Bursa Fall 2020: 8.49Ankara Summer 2021: 8.17Ankara Winter 2022: 7.79Back to İstanbul 2022: 7.18İstanbul Spring 2022: 6.84Edukent Weekend 2022: 7.08Cube Revenge İstanbul 2022: 7.40İstanbul Fall 2022: 7.20Qubes Don' Lie İstanbul 2022: 6.88Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 7.97Sweet November İstanbul 2022: 7.62Frozen Cubes İstanbul 2022: 7.23See You Next Year İstanbul 2023: 6.39Güneşli Sınav Cube Weekend 2023: 6.71Bursa Mother's Day 2024: 7.77Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 7.616.3912.3031 Mar 201825 Jul 2024

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 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 1.14 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.39 away.

Targets move as he improves.