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Zeynep Sevde Kara

3×3 · top 2.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2018 · 2018KARA13

Zeynep Sevde Kara has been competing for 8 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.55, set at Good Old Days Ankara 2019, puts her in the top 2.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 26th in Turkey. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since August 2018, she has put 419 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 15.20 in August 2018 to 7.55, a 50% improvement. Zeynep has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.1% of 284,439 all-time
7.55
signature single · Good Old Days Ankara 2019
419
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingTurkey
3×37.5510.63
top 2.1%26 / 2,193
2×22.583.76
top 9.7%144 / 1,647
Pyraminx4.686.51
top 11.3%102 / 1,188
4×441.2951.36
top 13.6%39 / 463
3×3 one-handed18.4724.40
top 16.3%48 / 566
Skewb7.2011.74
top 35.2%173 / 649

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

Back to İzmir 2018: 15.20Ankara Summer 2018: 12.94Uşak Open 2018: 11.29Bursa Winter 2019: 9.04Eskişehir Spring 2019: 10.39Good Old Days Ankara 2019: 7.55Ankara Fall 2019: 8.67Ankara Summer 2022: 7.56Sınav Cube Weekend 2022: 9.057.5515.203 Aug 201820 Aug 2022

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.55 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.58 away.

Targets move as she improves.