Competitions · Turkey
Pre-Nats İstanbul 2025
İstanbul · 26 July 2025 · 8 events · 50 competitors · 60 personal bests
Ahmet Çınar Ablak won five of the eight events (3×3, 2×2, 4×4) and the closest final was the Skewb, won by Amirali Rajab Pourmoghaddam by 0.02 seconds. 50 competitors produced 60 personal bests, 23 of which still stand today, and 14 people held a competitor card for the first time.
The moment
The day's biggest improvement
Yaman Bankoğlu took a 2×2 single of 4.52 down to 1.94, 57 percent better in one day.
Winners & podiums
| Event | Winner | Single | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | Ahmet Çınar Ablak | 5.75 | 6.99 |
| 2×2 | Ahmet Çınar Ablak | 1.65 | 2.07 |
| 4×4 | Ahmet Çınar Ablak | 27.49 | 30.46 |
| 3×3 one-handed | Ahmet Çınar Ablak | 12.09 | 13.26 |
| Clock | Can Uzun | 5.99 | 6.88 |
| Pyraminx | Ahmet Çınar Ablak | 2.59 | 3.01 |
| Skewb | Amirali Rajab Pourmoghaddam | 3.01 | 3.79 |
| Square-1 | Can Uzun | 8.49 | 11.92 |
The PB harvest
60 set · 23 still standing- Efe Öztürk — 3×3 single 7.16: into the top 1.5% of the event's history.
- Yaman Bankoğlu — 2×2 single 1.94: into the top 4.4% of the event's history.
- James Efe Şengül — 2×2 single 2.07: into the top 5.2% of the event's history.
- Buğra Karaca — 4×4 single 33.68: into the top 5.5% of the event's history.
- Efe Öztürk — Pyraminx single 4.12: into the top 8.3% of the event's history.
- Yunus Emre Bakırhan — 3×3 single 10.81: into the top 9.9% of the event's history.
- Göktuğ Dulluç — 3×3 single 11.53: into the top 12.3% of the event's history.
- Alperen İyilikli — 4×4 single 47.37: into the top 21.3% of the event's history.
First-timers
14 people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 28,483 people who made their debut in 2025. Start here explains what a first competition is like.
Records watch
No national, continental or world records were set at this competition. That is true of most competitions.
The field
50 competitors · 244 results · 8 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. Ahmet Çınar Ablak won it with a 6.99 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.
- 1
R D' B R2 F2 U D2 F U2 B F2 R2 F2 R2 U L2 F2 L' - 2
U R2 F2 L' D L' B R' F2 D U2 B U2 L2 D2 L2 B L2 U2 - 3
B2 U2 D2 L' D' F' L2 U' D' L2 B D2 F2 B2 R2 B' R2 D R2 - 4
D' B' R' D2 L2 D' B F2 R2 U2 D2 R D2 R U' L B L2 - 5
D L' D F D' R' U L2 F' R2 D2 L2 U F2 R2 U' R2 U R2
solve 1
solve 2
solve 3
solve 4
solve 5
Race this final
Everyone who competed
50 competitors- Ada Almira Şenol
- Ahmet Berkalp Tarakçı
- Ahmet Çınar Ablak
- Ahmet İhsan Özkan
- Ahmet Yiğit Öğcü
- Ali Mohammed Husain
- Ali Yiğit Delikanlı
- Alp Gürbüzer
- Alperen İyilikli
- Amirali Rajab Pourmoghaddam
- Aslan Sarıoğuz
- Ateş Ayaz Eral
- Batuhan Eralp
- Buğra Karaca
- Can Uzun
- Deren Tuna Gökçe
- Efe Öztürk
- Emir Yusuf Çiçekdemir
- Göktuğ Dulluç
- Güney Gençtürk
- Halil Zeyd Taşkın
- Hasan Buğra Kaya
- Hasan Fernando Öz
- İbrahim Yıldız
- İskender Aznavur
- Ismail Hameed
- James Efe Şengül
- Karim Badr
- Kerem Bozkurt
- Kerem Çalışkan
- Kerem Karaçar
- Kerim Armağan
- Mehmet Karaca
- Mert Ekmekçi
- Mert Sağdınç
- Meryem Naile Korkmaz
- Mete Gölalmış
- Muhammed Kuzey Demirbağ
- Muhammed Yahya Mavituna
- Muhammet Ali Ünal
- Mustafa Çamlıca
- Naci Çağan Erol
- Poyraz Uludağ
- Taha Mohammadibaher
- Yaman Bankoğlu
- Yasin Mamoori
- Yiğit Emin Kolan
- Yiğit Yıldırım
- Yunus Emre Bakırhan
- Yunus Emre Metin
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.