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Aadi Upadhyayula

3×3 · top 6.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2019 · 2019UPAD02

Aadi Upadhyayula has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.60, set at Trinity Valley Spring 2020, puts him in the top 6.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,524th in the United States. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since March 2019, he has put 102 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 94% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.39 in March 2019 to 9.60, a 62% improvement. Aadi has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.4% of 284,439 all-time
9.60
signature single · Trinity Valley Spring 2020
102
official solves on the record
17%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 94% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.6013.00
top 6.4%3,524 / 59,724
2×23.824.29
top 24.2%9,495 / 40,951
Pyraminx7.9011.04
top 35.4%9,998 / 28,708
4×41:13.421:25.40
top 50.2%8,445 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed35.1937.92
top 57.6%8,028 / 15,683
Megaminx2:41.65
early days — 2 solves5,115 / 7,841

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

Trinity Valley Open Spring 2019: 25.39DFW With A Twist 2019: 21.64CubingUSA Southern Championship 2019: 15.62Deccan Cube Open July 2019: 11.97Trinity Valley Spring 2020: 9.609.6025.3930 Mar 201922 Feb 2020

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.60 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.82 away.

Targets move as he improves.