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Yusuf Şamil Balcı

2×2 · top 21.6% of 186,767 all-time · competing since February 2014 · 2014BALC01

Yusuf Şamil Balcı has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 3.61, set at Turkish Ankara Open 2014, puts him in the top 21.6% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 319th in Turkey. Across 3 competitions since February 2014, he has put 61 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 9% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.16 in February 2014 to 17.23, a 26% improvement. Yusuf has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 21.6% of 186,767 all-time
3.61
signature single · Turkish Ankara Open 2014
61
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingTurkey
2×23.615.69
top 21.6%319 / 1,647
3×317.2320.46
top 31.7%564 / 2,193
Pyraminx10.2213.24
top 54.7%567 / 1,188
3×3 one-handed45.6155.15
top 72.3%334 / 566

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

Turkish Winter Cup 2014: 23.16Turkish Ankara Open 2014: 22.54Ankara Winter 2019: 17.2317.2323.162 Feb 201423 Feb 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-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.61 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 2.23 away.

Targets move as he improves.