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Utku Yılmaz

3×3 · top 0.97% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2018 · 2018YILM06

Utku Yılmaz has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.64, set at Rhein-Neckar Autumn 2023, puts him in the top 0.97% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 11th in Turkey. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since December 2018, he has put 1,010 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.65 in December 2018 to 6.64, a 76% improvement. Utku has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.97% of 284,439 all-time
6.64
signature single · Rhein-Neckar Autumn 2023
1,010
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingTurkey
3×36.649.57
top 0.97%11 / 2,193
Square-16.7610.14
top 1.5%2 / 149
2×21.763.30
top 3.4%41 / 1,647
Pyraminx3.966.54
top 7.5%66 / 1,188
4×438.4942.34
top 10.3%26 / 463
5×51:13.061:22.83
top 13.9%19 / 181
Clock8.1211.04
top 15.8%18 / 172
Skewb5.6711.54
top 23.2%113 / 649
3×3 one-handed21.0328.37
top 23.3%80 / 566
Megaminx1:24.501:31.19
top 24.6%26 / 125
6×62:34.962:52.63
top 28.2%14 / 63
7×74:19.654:32.53
top 37.6%14 / 59
3×3 Fewest Moves44 moves—
early days — 2 solves34 / 72

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

İstanbul Winter 2018: 27.65İstanbul Summer 2019: 13.79Merter Final 2019: 9.82Back to İstanbul 2022: 9.04İstanbul Spring 2022: 10.78Ankara Summer 2022: 9.17Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 9.17Cube Revenge İstanbul 2022: 9.03İstanbul Fall 2022: 8.90Qubes Don' Lie İstanbul 2022: 8.30Atatürk Cube Weekend 2022: 10.43Sweet November İstanbul 2022: 8.73Turkish Nationals 2023: 8.79Bavarian Open 2023: 8.49Rhein-Neckar Autumn 2023: 6.64Teublitz Open 2024: 8.81Maribor Open 2024: 8.77Rubik's German Nationals 2024: 9.11Munich Open 2025: 8.346.6427.651 Dec 201820 Sep 2025

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 0.64 away.
  • A sub-6 Square-1 single — 201 people have one; it is 0.76 away.

Targets move as he improves.