Competitions · Turkey
Merter Final 2019
İstanbul · 26 October 2019 · 9 events · 58 competitors · 81 personal bests
Tolga Kaan Kantarcı won two of the nine events (3×3, 3×3 one-handed) and the closest final was the 2×2, won by Ahmet Çınar Ablak by 0.06 seconds. 58 competitors produced 81 personal bests, 21 of which still stand today, and 17 people held a competitor card for the first time.
Winners & podiums
| Event | Winner | Single | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | Tolga Kaan Kantarcı | 7.13 | 8.59 |
| 2×2 | Ahmet Çınar Ablak | 2.40 | 3.29 |
| 4×4 | Mert Sağdınç | 34.62 | 35.06 |
| 5×5 | Sherkhan-Mukhammad Nasirov | 1:10.44 | 1:13.63 |
| 3×3 one-handed | Tolga Kaan Kantarcı | 11.22 | 13.59 |
| Megaminx | Can Gücüyener | 55.40 | 1:03.51 |
| Pyraminx | Ali Rıza Kulaksız | 3.70 | 4.37 |
| Skewb | Selim Sungur | 3.56 | 5.27 |
| Square-1 | Ahmet Çınar Ablak | 10.32 | 11.31 |
The PB harvest
81 set · 21 still standing- Eyüp Erbeyin — 3×3 single 7.35: into the top 1.8% of the event's history.
- Ömer Çetinkaya — 3×3 one-handed single 11.77: into the top 2.7% of the event's history.
- Umut Coşan — 4×4 single 37.95: into the top 9.7% of the event's history.
- Sherkhan-Mukhammad Nasirov — 3×3 one-handed single 15.81: into the top 9.8% of the event's history.
- Tolga Kaan Kantarcı — 4×4 single 42.26: into the top 14.8% of the event's history.
- Ömer Furkan Günler — 2×2 single 3.14: into the top 15.9% of the event's history.
- Emirhan Zeyrek — 2×2 single 3.28: into the top 17.5% of the event's history.
- Bedirhan Alagöz — Square-1 single 17.40: into the top 21.8% of the event's history.
First-timers
17 people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 27,871 people who made their debut in 2019. Start here explains what a first competition is like.
Records watch
7 regional records were set at this competition.
The field
58 competitors · 385 results · 9 events.
Solve this final yourself
how this works →The 3×3 final here ran on one scramble group, so these five sequences are exactly what the finalists faced. Tolga Kaan Kantarcı won it with a 8.59 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.
- 1
U' B2 D' R U L' F D2 R U F' L2 D2 F L2 B L2 F2 U2 F2 - 2
L2 B' D2 F R2 B' R2 U2 F U' L F L U2 B R D2 B F2 U2 - 3
F' R2 U2 B L2 R2 B2 F' U2 B U' L U2 L2 D' F R' D F L - 4
B2 R2 F L2 D2 F D2 L2 D2 L R D B D U F U2 L2 B2 L2 - 5
R B2 F2 U2 L' F2 L' B2 L U2 F2 U' F' R2 F2 R B' F2 L U L'
solve 1
solve 2
solve 3
solve 4
solve 5
Race this final
Everyone who competed
58 competitors- Acar Gök
- Ahmet Berkalp Tarakçı
- Ahmet Çınar Ablak
- Ahmet Yunus Gırcın
- Alen Ayvazoğlu
- Ali Ömür Erden
- Ali Rıza Kulaksız
- Alp Terliksiz
- Alper Şakım
- Altan Ünver
- Anas Obaidi
- Arda Canoğlu
- Armağan Ege Taşkıran
- Artem Konotopchyk (Артем Конотопчик)
- Atakan Acar
- Barkın Kemal Yiğit
- Bedirhan Alagöz
- Berat Çelikel
- Berke Tuna Bostancı
- Can Gücüyener
- Dora Demir
- Ecevit Ablak
- Efe Horasan
- Efe Öztürk
- Ege Türkdoğan
- Ege Yuksektas
- Emir Yusuf Çiçekdemir
- Emirhan Zeyrek
- Erkan Tepe
- Eyüp Erbeyin
- George Endo (遠藤情慈)
- Hızır Doruk Azaklı
- İskender Aznavur
- Kağan Atalay
- Kenan Alim
- Mert Sağdınç
- Mert Sungur
- Metehan Homriş
- Muhammed Efe Aydın
- Muhammed Volkan Güngör
- Muhammet Ege Sevinç
- Muhsin Mert Arslan
- Ömer Çetinkaya
- Ömer Furkan Günler
- Ömer Hakan İçke
- Onuralp Kızılkılıç
- Orkun Efe Dahar
- Öykü Voyvoda
- Ozan Ateş
- Rüya Özkartal
- Selim Sungur
- Sherkhan-Mukhammad Nasirov
- Tolga Kaan Kantarcı
- Tuna Özsoy
- Ulaş Değer Çetinkaya
- Umut Coşan
- Utku Yılmaz
- Yiğit Eren Bakır
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 final is a competition's last round; its order decides the podium · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · every solve starts from a computer-generated scramble, the same for every competitor in a round.