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Achyuthan Balaji

2×2 · top 15.4% of 186,767 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022BALA16

Achyuthan Balaji has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 3.10, set at Minnesota Warm Up 2024, puts him in the top 15.4% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6,032nd in the United States. Across 8 competitions since October 2022, he has put 143 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 71% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Achyuthan has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 15.4% of 186,767 all-time
3.10
signature single · Minnesota Warm Up 2024
143
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 71% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×23.105.56
top 15.4%6,032 / 40,951
3×316.6019.70
top 29.7%16,325 / 59,724
Skewb7.7310.24
top 39.3%6,748 / 18,907
Pyraminx8.9111.10
top 44.0%12,634 / 28,708
Megaminx2:30.40
top 61.2%4,624 / 7,841
4×42:03.46
early days — 3 solves15,568 / 19,072

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

Cubetcha 2022: 17.30Rochester Fall 2022: 16.60Minnesota Cube Day 2023: 18.90Cubetcha 2023: 19.40Minnesota Warm Up 2024: 21.94Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 22.76Rosemount Side Events 2024: 20.7316.6022.768 Oct 20221 Sep 2024

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

  • 8 Oct 2022First competition: Cubetcha 2022. A 19.73 3×3 single to start from.

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 0.10 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 1.60 away.

Targets move as he improves.