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Advait Pai

3×3 · top 7.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2017 · 2017PAIA01

Advait Pai has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.08, set at Versatile Cube Open 2018, puts him in the top 7.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 859th in India. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since July 2017, he has put 167 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 96% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.49 in July 2017 to 10.08, a 30% improvement. Advait has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.7% of 284,439 all-time
10.08
signature single · Versatile Cube Open 2018
167
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 96% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×310.0811.98
top 7.7%859 / 20,018
3×3 one-handed15.6218.05
top 9.4%306 / 4,516
Skewb3.915.79
top 10.3%266 / 3,524
4×442.5555.86
top 15.2%409 / 4,186
2×23.535.49
top 20.6%1,778 / 12,146
Pyraminx8.5212.10
top 40.7%2,626 / 8,934
5×52:13.152:26.19
top 57.2%751 / 1,525
Megaminx3:52.13
early days — 1 solve1,156 / 1,443

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

Mumbai Monsoon Open 2017: 14.49Versatile Cube Open 2018: 10.08Indian Nationals 2018: 12.13Oculus Cube Open 2019: 10.15RGIT Cube Open 2019: 12.2510.0814.4916 Jul 20179 Mar 2019

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.08 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 0.62 away.

Targets move as he improves.